diff --git a/config/src/test/java/org/springframework/security/config/http/HttpHeadersConfigTests.java b/config/src/test/java/org/springframework/security/config/http/HttpHeadersConfigTests.java
index 042d9185c4..16a93e9633 100644
--- a/config/src/test/java/org/springframework/security/config/http/HttpHeadersConfigTests.java
+++ b/config/src/test/java/org/springframework/security/config/http/HttpHeadersConfigTests.java
@@ -28,14 +28,17 @@ import jakarta.servlet.http.HttpSession;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.extension.ExtendWith;
 
+import org.springframework.beans.BeansException;
 import org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException;
 import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.config.BeanPostProcessor;
 import org.springframework.beans.factory.parsing.BeanDefinitionParsingException;
 import org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionStoreException;
 import org.springframework.security.config.test.SpringTestContext;
 import org.springframework.security.config.test.SpringTestContextExtension;
 import org.springframework.security.core.Authentication;
 import org.springframework.security.web.authentication.session.SessionLimit;
+import org.springframework.security.web.header.HeaderWriterFilter;
 import org.springframework.test.web.servlet.MockMvc;
 import org.springframework.test.web.servlet.ResultMatcher;
 import org.springframework.test.web.servlet.request.MockHttpServletRequestBuilder;
@@ -150,6 +153,16 @@ public class HttpHeadersConfigTests {
 		// @formatter:on
 	}
 
+	@Test
+	public void requestWhenHeadersEagerlyConfiguredThenHeadersAreWritten() throws Exception {
+		this.spring.configLocations(this.xml("HeadersEagerlyConfigured")).autowire();
+		// @formatter:off
+		this.mvc.perform(get("/").secure(true))
+				.andExpect(status().isOk())
+				.andExpect(includesDefaults());
+		// @formatter:on
+	}
+
 	@Test
 	public void requestWhenFrameOptionsConfiguredThenIncludesHeader() throws Exception {
 		Map<String, String> headers = new HashMap(defaultHeaders);
@@ -955,6 +968,18 @@ public class HttpHeadersConfigTests {
 
 	}
 
+	public static class EagerHeadersBeanPostProcessor implements BeanPostProcessor {
+
+		@Override
+		public Object postProcessAfterInitialization(Object bean, String beanName) throws BeansException {
+			if (bean instanceof HeaderWriterFilter headerWriterFilter) {
+				headerWriterFilter.setShouldWriteHeadersEagerly(true);
+			}
+			return bean;
+		}
+
+	}
+
 	public static class CustomSessionLimit implements SessionLimit {
 
 		@Override
diff --git a/config/src/test/resources/org/springframework/security/config/http/HttpHeadersConfigTests-HeadersEagerlyConfigured.xml b/config/src/test/resources/org/springframework/security/config/http/HttpHeadersConfigTests-HeadersEagerlyConfigured.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0cb674e409
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/src/test/resources/org/springframework/security/config/http/HttpHeadersConfigTests-HeadersEagerlyConfigured.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+  ~ Copyright 2004-present the original author or authors.
+  ~
+  ~ Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+  ~ you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+  ~ You may obtain a copy of the License at
+  ~
+  ~      https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+  ~
+  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+  ~ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+  ~ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+  ~ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+  ~ limitations under the License.
+  -->
+
+<b:beans xmlns:b="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
+		xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+		xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security"
+		xsi:schemaLocation="
+			http://www.springframework.org/schema/security
+			https://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security.xsd
+			http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
+			https://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd">
+
+	<http auto-config="true">
+		<headers/>
+		<intercept-url pattern="/**" access="permitAll"/>
+	</http>
+
+	<b:bean class="org.springframework.security.config.http.HttpHeadersConfigTests.EagerHeadersBeanPostProcessor"/>
+
+	<b:bean name="simple" class="org.springframework.security.config.http.HttpHeadersConfigTests.SimpleController"/>
+
+	<b:import resource="userservice.xml"/>
+</b:beans>