diff --git a/cmd/rest/client.go b/cmd/rest/client.go
index 74f198a86..ebb326288 100644
--- a/cmd/rest/client.go
+++ b/cmd/rest/client.go
@@ -100,9 +100,8 @@ func NewClient(url *url.URL, tlsConfig *tls.Config, timeout time.Duration, newAu
 	tr := &http.Transport{
 		Proxy:                 http.ProxyFromEnvironment,
 		DialContext:           newCustomDialContext(timeout),
-		MaxIdleConnsPerHost:   4096,
-		MaxIdleConns:          4096,
-		IdleConnTimeout:       120 * time.Second,
+		MaxIdleConnsPerHost:   256,
+		IdleConnTimeout:       60 * time.Second,
 		TLSHandshakeTimeout:   30 * time.Second,
 		ExpectContinueTimeout: 10 * time.Second,
 		TLSClientConfig:       tlsConfig,
diff --git a/cmd/storage-rest-server.go b/cmd/storage-rest-server.go
index 349d5a74a..797c34875 100644
--- a/cmd/storage-rest-server.go
+++ b/cmd/storage-rest-server.go
@@ -415,7 +415,6 @@ func (s *storageRESTServer) WalkHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request)
 	}
 	defer w.(http.Flusher).Flush()
 
-	w.Header().Set("Connection", "close") // Pro-actively ask client to close this connection.
 	encoder := gob.NewEncoder(w)
 	for fi := range fch {
 		encoder.Encode(&fi)