diff --git a/README b/README
index 3586630..12d65a2 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 Limitations
 	Currently only inspects the following headers: Range, If-Range,
 	If-Unmodified-Since, If-Modified-Since, Date, Accept-Encoding,
-	Accept-Language, Accept-Charset
+	Accept-Language, Accept-Charset, Max-Forwards
 
 Report Bugs
 	Create a ticket on the issue tracking interface of GitHub:
diff --git a/ngx_http_header_inspect.c b/ngx_http_header_inspect.c
index 10ba387..4fd13aa 100644
--- a/ngx_http_header_inspect.c
+++ b/ngx_http_header_inspect.c
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
 static ngx_int_t ngx_header_inspect_acceptencoding_header(ngx_header_inspect_loc_conf_t *conf, ngx_log_t *log, ngx_str_t value);
 static ngx_int_t ngx_header_inspect_acceptlanguage_header(ngx_header_inspect_loc_conf_t *conf, ngx_log_t *log, ngx_str_t value);
 static ngx_int_t ngx_header_inspect_acceptcharset_header(ngx_header_inspect_loc_conf_t *conf, ngx_log_t *log, ngx_str_t value);
+static ngx_int_t ngx_header_inspect_maxforwards_header(ngx_header_inspect_loc_conf_t *conf, ngx_log_t *log, ngx_str_t value);
 static ngx_int_t ngx_header_inspect_ifrange_header(ngx_header_inspect_loc_conf_t *conf, ngx_log_t *log, ngx_str_t value);
 static ngx_int_t ngx_header_inspect_date_header(ngx_header_inspect_loc_conf_t *conf, ngx_log_t *log, char *header, ngx_str_t value);
 static ngx_int_t ngx_header_inspect_process_request(ngx_http_request_t *r);
@@ -866,6 +867,24 @@
 	}
 }
 
+static ngx_int_t ngx_header_inspect_maxforwards_header(ngx_header_inspect_loc_conf_t *conf, ngx_log_t *log, ngx_str_t value) {
+	ngx_uint_t i = 0;
+
+	if ( value.len <= 0 ) {
+		ngx_log_error(NGX_LOG_ALERT, log, 0, "header_inspect: Max-Forwards header \"%s\" is empty", value.data);
+		return NGX_ERROR;
+	}
+
+	for ( i = 0; i < value.len; i++ ) {
+		if ( (value.data[i] < '0') || (value.data[i] > '9') ) {
+			ngx_log_error(NGX_LOG_ALERT, log, 0, "header_inspect: invalid digit at position %d in Max-Forwards header \"%s\"", i, value.data);
+			return NGX_ERROR;
+		}
+	}
+
+	return NGX_OK;
+}
+
 static ngx_int_t ngx_header_inspect_acceptcharset_header(ngx_header_inspect_loc_conf_t *conf, ngx_log_t *log, ngx_str_t value) {
 	ngx_int_t rc = NGX_AGAIN;
 	ngx_uint_t i = 0;
@@ -1148,6 +1167,11 @@
 					if ((rc != NGX_OK) && conf->block) {
 						return NGX_HTTP_BAD_REQUEST;
 					}
+				} else if ((h[i].key.len == 12) && (ngx_strcmp("Max-Forwards", h[i].key.data) == 0) ) {
+					rc = ngx_header_inspect_maxforwards_header(conf, r->connection->log, h[i].value);
+					if ((rc != NGX_OK) && conf->block) {
+						return NGX_HTTP_BAD_REQUEST;
+					}
 				} else {
 					/* TODO: support for other headers */
 					if (conf->log_uninspected) {