diff --git a/lib/controller/checks.py b/lib/controller/checks.py
index db8e97ba0..55b00bd74 100644
--- a/lib/controller/checks.py
+++ b/lib/controller/checks.py
@@ -1131,6 +1131,14 @@ def checkNullConnection():
                 infoMsg = "NULL connection is supported with GET header "
                 infoMsg += "'%s'" % kb.nullConnection
                 logger.info(infoMsg)
+            else:
+                _, headers, _ = Request.getPage(skipRead = True)
+
+                if HTTP_HEADER.CONTENT_LENGTH in (headers or {}):
+                    kb.nullConnection = NULLCONNECTION.SKIP_READ
+
+                    infoMsg = "NULL connection is supported with 'skip-read' method"
+                    logger.info(infoMsg)
 
     except SqlmapConnectionException, errMsg:
         errMsg = getUnicode(errMsg)
diff --git a/lib/core/enums.py b/lib/core/enums.py
index 7b4d9949c..8d9a201ee 100644
--- a/lib/core/enums.py
+++ b/lib/core/enums.py
@@ -86,6 +86,7 @@ class HTTPMETHOD:
 class NULLCONNECTION:
     HEAD = "HEAD"
     RANGE = "Range"
+    SKIP_READ = "skip-read"
 
 class REFLECTIVE_COUNTER:
     MISS = "MISS"
diff --git a/lib/request/connect.py b/lib/request/connect.py
index 4ab8f03e6..5cb77ebfa 100644
--- a/lib/request/connect.py
+++ b/lib/request/connect.py
@@ -211,6 +211,7 @@ class Connect(object):
         refreshing = kwargs.get("refreshing",       False)
         retrying = kwargs.get("retrying",           False)
         crawling = kwargs.get("crawling",           False)
+        skipRead = kwargs.get("skipRead",           False)
 
         if not urlparse.urlsplit(url).netloc:
             url = urlparse.urljoin(conf.url, url)
@@ -266,7 +267,7 @@ class Connect(object):
 
                 multipartOpener = urllib2.build_opener(proxyHandler, multipartpost.MultipartPostHandler)
                 conn = multipartOpener.open(unicodeencode(url), multipart)
-                page = Connect._connReadProxy(conn)
+                page = Connect._connReadProxy(conn) if not skipRead else None
                 responseHeaders = conn.info()
                 responseHeaders[URI_HTTP_HEADER] = conn.geturl()
                 page = decodePage(page, responseHeaders.get(HTTP_HEADER.CONTENT_ENCODING), responseHeaders.get(HTTP_HEADER.CONTENT_TYPE))
@@ -380,12 +381,12 @@ class Connect(object):
 
             # Get HTTP response
             if hasattr(conn, 'redurl'):
-                page = threadData.lastRedirectMsg[1] if kb.redirectChoice == REDIRECTION.NO\
-                  else Connect._connReadProxy(conn)
+                page = (threadData.lastRedirectMsg[1] if kb.redirectChoice == REDIRECTION.NO\
+                  else Connect._connReadProxy(conn)) if not skipRead else None
                 skipLogTraffic = kb.redirectChoice == REDIRECTION.NO
                 code = conn.redcode
             else:
-                page = Connect._connReadProxy(conn)
+                page = Connect._connReadProxy(conn) if not skipRead else None
 
             code = code or conn.code
             responseHeaders = conn.info()
@@ -439,7 +440,7 @@ class Connect(object):
             responseHeaders = None
 
             try:
-                page = e.read()
+                page = e.read() if not skipRead else None
                 responseHeaders = e.info()
                 responseHeaders[URI_HTTP_HEADER] = e.geturl()
                 page = decodePage(page, responseHeaders.get(HTTP_HEADER.CONTENT_ENCODING), responseHeaders.get(HTTP_HEADER.CONTENT_TYPE))
@@ -820,10 +821,10 @@ class Connect(object):
 
                 auxHeaders[HTTP_HEADER.RANGE] = "bytes=-1"
 
-            _, headers, code = Connect.getPage(url=uri, get=get, post=post, cookie=cookie, ua=ua, referer=referer, host=host, silent=silent, method=method, auxHeaders=auxHeaders, raise404=raise404)
+            _, headers, code = Connect.getPage(url=uri, get=get, post=post, cookie=cookie, ua=ua, referer=referer, host=host, silent=silent, method=method, auxHeaders=auxHeaders, raise404=raise404, skipRead=(kb.nullConnection == NULLCONNECTION.SKIP_READ))
 
             if headers:
-                if kb.nullConnection == NULLCONNECTION.HEAD and HTTP_HEADER.CONTENT_LENGTH in headers:
+                if kb.nullConnection in (NULLCONNECTION.HEAD, NULLCONNECTION.SKIP_READ) and HTTP_HEADER.CONTENT_LENGTH in headers:
                     pageLength = int(headers[HTTP_HEADER.CONTENT_LENGTH])
                 elif kb.nullConnection == NULLCONNECTION.RANGE and HTTP_HEADER.CONTENT_RANGE in headers:
                     pageLength = int(headers[HTTP_HEADER.CONTENT_RANGE][headers[HTTP_HEADER.CONTENT_RANGE].find('/') + 1:])