diff --git a/modules/@angular/http/src/headers.ts b/modules/@angular/http/src/headers.ts
index 0e54e80689..3e582aa239 100644
--- a/modules/@angular/http/src/headers.ts
+++ b/modules/@angular/http/src/headers.ts
@@ -49,19 +49,16 @@ export class Headers {
     }
 
     if (headers instanceof Headers) {
-      headers._headers.forEach((value: string[], name: string) => {
-        const lcName = name.toLowerCase();
-        this._headers.set(lcName, value);
-        this.mayBeSetNormalizedName(name);
+      headers._headers.forEach((values: string[], name: string) => {
+        values.forEach(value => this.append(name, value));
       });
       return;
     }
 
     Object.keys(headers).forEach((name: string) => {
-      const value = headers[name];
-      const lcName = name.toLowerCase();
-      this._headers.set(lcName, Array.isArray(value) ? value : [value]);
-      this.mayBeSetNormalizedName(name);
+      const values: string[] = Array.isArray(headers[name]) ? headers[name] : [headers[name]];
+      this.delete(name);
+      values.forEach(value => this.append(name, value));
     });
   }
 
@@ -137,8 +134,13 @@ export class Headers {
    * Sets or overrides header value for given name.
    */
   set(name: string, value: string|string[]): void {
-    const strValue = Array.isArray(value) ? value.join(',') : value;
-    this._headers.set(name.toLowerCase(), [strValue]);
+    if (Array.isArray(value)) {
+      if (value.length) {
+        this._headers.set(name.toLowerCase(), [value.join(',')]);
+      }
+    } else {
+      this._headers.set(name.toLowerCase(), [value]);
+    }
     this.mayBeSetNormalizedName(name);
   }
 
diff --git a/modules/@angular/http/test/headers_spec.ts b/modules/@angular/http/test/headers_spec.ts
index 0325f0c5ab..d1090b82ee 100644
--- a/modules/@angular/http/test/headers_spec.ts
+++ b/modules/@angular/http/test/headers_spec.ts
@@ -37,6 +37,24 @@ export function main() {
         secondHeaders.append('Content-Type', 'image/jpeg');
         expect(firstHeaders.has('Content-Type')).toEqual(false);
       });
+
+      it('should preserve the list of values', () => {
+        const src = new Headers();
+        src.append('foo', 'a');
+        src.append('foo', 'b');
+        src.append('foo', 'c');
+        const dst = new Headers(src);
+        expect(dst.getAll('foo')).toEqual(src.getAll('foo'));
+      });
+
+      it('should keep the last value when initialized from an object', () => {
+        const headers = new Headers({
+          'foo': 'first',
+          'fOo': 'second',
+        });
+
+        expect(headers.getAll('foo')).toEqual(['second']);
+      });
     });
 
     describe('.set()', () => {
@@ -140,7 +158,6 @@ export function main() {
         ref = {'Accept': values};
       });
 
-
       it('should be serializable with toJSON',
          () => { expect(JSON.stringify(headers)).toEqual(JSON.stringify(ref)); });