diff --git a/lib/_http_server.js b/lib/_http_server.js
index be55784e7e..80880be46b 100644
--- a/lib/_http_server.js
+++ b/lib/_http_server.js
@@ -328,9 +328,11 @@ function connectionListener(socket) {
   // Override on to unconsume on `data`, `readable` listeners
   socket.on = socketOnWrap;
 
+  // We only consume the socket if it has never been consumed before.
   var external = socket._handle._externalStream;
-  if (external) {
+  if (!socket._handle._consumed && external) {
     parser._consumed = true;
+    socket._handle._consumed = true;
     parser.consume(external);
   }
   parser[kOnExecute] =
diff --git a/test/parallel/test-http-server-unconsume-consume.js b/test/parallel/test-http-server-unconsume-consume.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..77baff19fe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/parallel/test-http-server-unconsume-consume.js
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+'use strict';
+const common = require('../common');
+const http = require('http');
+
+const testServer = http.createServer((req, res) => {
+  common.fail('Should not be called');
+  res.end();
+});
+testServer.on('connect', common.mustCall((req, socket, head) => {
+  socket.write('HTTP/1.1 200 Connection Established' + '\r\n' +
+      'Proxy-agent: Node-Proxy' + '\r\n' +
+      '\r\n');
+  // This shouldn't raise an assertion in StreamBase::Consume.
+  testServer.emit('connection', socket);
+  testServer.close();
+}));
+testServer.listen(0, common.mustCall(() => {
+  http.request({
+      port: testServer.address().port,
+      method: 'CONNECT'
+  }, (res) => {}).end();
+}));