diff --git a/credential.c b/credential.c
index f6389a50684..897b4679333 100644
--- a/credential.c
+++ b/credential.c
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ void credential_clear(struct credential *c)
 	free(c->username);
 	free(c->password);
 	string_list_clear(&c->helpers, 0);
+	strvec_clear(&c->wwwauth_headers);
 
 	credential_init(c);
 }
diff --git a/credential.h b/credential.h
index f430e77fea4..3756a54c74d 100644
--- a/credential.h
+++ b/credential.h
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 #define CREDENTIAL_H
 
 #include "string-list.h"
+#include "strvec.h"
 
 /**
  * The credentials API provides an abstracted way of gathering username and
@@ -115,6 +116,20 @@ struct credential {
 	 */
 	struct string_list helpers;
 
+	/**
+	 * A `strvec` of WWW-Authenticate header values. Each string
+	 * is the value of a WWW-Authenticate header in an HTTP response,
+	 * in the order they were received in the response.
+	 */
+	struct strvec wwwauth_headers;
+
+	/**
+	 * Internal use only. Keeps track of if we previously matched against a
+	 * WWW-Authenticate header line in order to re-fold future continuation
+	 * lines into one value.
+	 */
+	unsigned header_is_last_match:1;
+
 	unsigned approved:1,
 		 configured:1,
 		 quit:1,
@@ -130,6 +145,7 @@ struct credential {
 
 #define CREDENTIAL_INIT { \
 	.helpers = STRING_LIST_INIT_DUP, \
+	.wwwauth_headers = STRVEC_INIT, \
 }
 
 /* Initialize a credential structure, setting all fields to empty. */
diff --git a/git-compat-util.h b/git-compat-util.h
index a76d0526f79..a59230564e8 100644
--- a/git-compat-util.h
+++ b/git-compat-util.h
@@ -1266,6 +1266,29 @@ static inline int skip_iprefix(const char *str, const char *prefix,
 	return 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Like skip_prefix_mem, but compare case-insensitively. Note that the
+ * comparison is done via tolower(), so it is strictly ASCII (no multi-byte
+ * characters or locale-specific conversions).
+ */
+static inline int skip_iprefix_mem(const char *buf, size_t len,
+				   const char *prefix,
+				   const char **out, size_t *outlen)
+{
+	size_t prefix_len = strlen(prefix);
+
+	if (len < prefix_len)
+		return 0;
+
+	if (!strncasecmp(buf, prefix, prefix_len)) {
+		*out = buf + prefix_len;
+		*outlen = len - prefix_len;
+		return 1;
+	}
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
 static inline int strtoul_ui(char const *s, int base, unsigned int *result)
 {
 	unsigned long ul;
diff --git a/http.c b/http.c
index 8a5ba3f4776..3ff570ee3a9 100644
--- a/http.c
+++ b/http.c
@@ -183,6 +183,115 @@ size_t fwrite_buffer(char *ptr, size_t eltsize, size_t nmemb, void *buffer_)
 	return nmemb;
 }
 
+/*
+ * A folded header continuation line starts with any number of spaces or
+ * horizontal tab characters (SP or HTAB) as per RFC 7230 section 3.2.
+ * It is not a continuation line if the line starts with any other character.
+ */
+static inline int is_hdr_continuation(const char *ptr, const size_t size)
+{
+	return size && (*ptr == ' ' || *ptr == '\t');
+}
+
+static size_t fwrite_wwwauth(char *ptr, size_t eltsize, size_t nmemb, void *p)
+{
+	size_t size = eltsize * nmemb;
+	struct strvec *values = &http_auth.wwwauth_headers;
+	struct strbuf buf = STRBUF_INIT;
+	const char *val;
+	size_t val_len;
+
+	/*
+	 * Header lines may not come NULL-terminated from libcurl so we must
+	 * limit all scans to the maximum length of the header line, or leverage
+	 * strbufs for all operations.
+	 *
+	 * In addition, it is possible that header values can be split over
+	 * multiple lines as per RFC 7230. 'Line folding' has been deprecated
+	 * but older servers may still emit them. A continuation header field
+	 * value is identified as starting with a space or horizontal tab.
+	 *
+	 * The formal definition of a header field as given in RFC 7230 is:
+	 *
+	 * header-field   = field-name ":" OWS field-value OWS
+	 *
+	 * field-name     = token
+	 * field-value    = *( field-content / obs-fold )
+	 * field-content  = field-vchar [ 1*( SP / HTAB ) field-vchar ]
+	 * field-vchar    = VCHAR / obs-text
+	 *
+	 * obs-fold       = CRLF 1*( SP / HTAB )
+	 *                ; obsolete line folding
+	 *                ; see Section 3.2.4
+	 */
+
+	/* Start of a new WWW-Authenticate header */
+	if (skip_iprefix_mem(ptr, size, "www-authenticate:", &val, &val_len)) {
+		strbuf_add(&buf, val, val_len);
+
+		/*
+		 * Strip the CRLF that should be present at the end of each
+		 * field as well as any trailing or leading whitespace from the
+		 * value.
+		 */
+		strbuf_trim(&buf);
+
+		strvec_push(values, buf.buf);
+		http_auth.header_is_last_match = 1;
+		goto exit;
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * This line could be a continuation of the previously matched header
+	 * field. If this is the case then we should append this value to the
+	 * end of the previously consumed value.
+	 */
+	if (http_auth.header_is_last_match && is_hdr_continuation(ptr, size)) {
+		/*
+		 * Trim the CRLF and any leading or trailing from this line.
+		 */
+		strbuf_add(&buf, ptr, size);
+		strbuf_trim(&buf);
+
+		/*
+		 * At this point we should always have at least one existing
+		 * value, even if it is empty. Do not bother appending the new
+		 * value if this continuation header is itself empty.
+		 */
+		if (!values->nr) {
+			BUG("should have at least one existing header value");
+		} else if (buf.len) {
+			char *prev = xstrdup(values->v[values->nr - 1]);
+
+			/* Join two non-empty values with a single space. */
+			const char *const sp = *prev ? " " : "";
+
+			strvec_pop(values);
+			strvec_pushf(values, "%s%s%s", prev, sp, buf.buf);
+			free(prev);
+		}
+
+		goto exit;
+	}
+
+	/* Not a continuation of a previously matched auth header line. */
+	http_auth.header_is_last_match = 0;
+
+	/*
+	 * If this is a HTTP status line and not a header field, this signals
+	 * a different HTTP response. libcurl writes all the output of all
+	 * response headers of all responses, including redirects.
+	 * We only care about the last HTTP request response's headers so clear
+	 * the existing array.
+	 */
+	if (!strncasecmp(ptr, "http/", 5))
+		strvec_clear(values);
+
+exit:
+	strbuf_release(&buf);
+	return size;
+}
+
 size_t fwrite_null(char *ptr, size_t eltsize, size_t nmemb, void *strbuf)
 {
 	return nmemb;
@@ -1864,6 +1973,8 @@ static int http_request(const char *url,
 					 fwrite_buffer);
 	}
 
+	curl_easy_setopt(slot->curl, CURLOPT_HEADERFUNCTION, fwrite_wwwauth);
+
 	accept_language = http_get_accept_language_header();
 
 	if (accept_language)
