diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
deleted file mode 100644
index 03d9eec..0000000
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-picohttpparser.*       ident
diff --git a/picohttpparser.c b/picohttpparser.c
index baf4d7d..1904785 100644
--- a/picohttpparser.c
+++ b/picohttpparser.c
@@ -39,8 +39,6 @@
 #endif
 #include "picohttpparser.h"
 
-/* $Id$ */
-
 #if __GNUC__ >= 3
 #define likely(x) __builtin_expect(!!(x), 1)
 #define unlikely(x) __builtin_expect(!!(x), 0)
@@ -169,9 +167,9 @@ static const char *findchar_nonprintable_fast(const char *buf, const char *buf_e
 
     return buf;
 #else
-    static const char ALIGNED(16) ranges2[] = "\000\040\177\177";
+    static const char ALIGNED(16) ranges2[16] = "\000\040\177\177";
 
-    return findchar_fast(buf, buf_end, ranges2, sizeof(ranges2) - 1, found);
+    return findchar_fast(buf, buf_end, ranges2, 4, found);
 #endif
 }
 
@@ -180,15 +178,11 @@ static const char *get_token_to_eol(const char *buf, const char *buf_end, const
     const char *token_start = buf;
 
 #ifdef __SSE4_2__
-    static const char ranges1[] = "\0\010"
-                                  /* allow HT */
-                                  "\012\037"
-                                  /* allow SP and up to but not including DEL */
-                                  "\177\177"
-        /* allow chars w. MSB set */
-        ;
+    static const char ALIGNED(16) ranges1[16] = "\0\010"    /* allow HT */
+                                                "\012\037"  /* allow SP and up to but not including DEL */
+                                                "\177\177"; /* allow chars w. MSB set */
     int found;
-    buf = findchar_fast(buf, buf_end, ranges1, sizeof(ranges1) - 1, &found);
+    buf = findchar_fast(buf, buf_end, ranges1, 6, &found);
     if (found)
         goto FOUND_CTL;
 #elif defined(__ARM_64BIT_STATE) && defined(__ARM_FEATURE_UNALIGNED) && !defined(__ARM_BIG_ENDIAN)
@@ -433,9 +427,13 @@ static const char *parse_request(const char *buf, const char *buf_end, const cha
 
     /* parse request line */
     ADVANCE_TOKEN(*method, *method_len);
-    ++buf;
+    do {
+        ++buf;
+    } while (*buf == ' ');
     ADVANCE_TOKEN(*path, *path_len);
-    ++buf;
+    do {
+        ++buf;
+    } while (*buf == ' ');
     if (*method_len == 0 || *path_len == 0) {
         *ret = -1;
         return NULL;
@@ -492,10 +490,13 @@ static const char *parse_response(const char *buf, const char *buf_end, int *min
         return NULL;
     }
     /* skip space */
-    if (*buf++ != ' ') {
+    if (*buf != ' ') {
         *ret = -1;
         return NULL;
     }
+    do {
+        ++buf;
+    } while (*buf == ' ');
     /* parse status code, we want at least [:digit:][:digit:][:digit:]<other char> to try to parse */
     if (buf_end - buf < 4) {
         *ret = -2;
@@ -511,8 +512,10 @@ static const char *parse_response(const char *buf, const char *buf_end, int *min
         /* ok */
     } else if (**msg == ' ') {
         /* remove preceding space */
-        ++*msg;
-        --*msg_len;
+        do {
+            ++*msg;
+            --*msg_len;
+        } while (**msg == ' ');
     } else {
         /* garbage found after status code */
         *ret = -1;
diff --git a/picohttpparser.h b/picohttpparser.h
index 67fd3ee..0849f84 100644
--- a/picohttpparser.h
+++ b/picohttpparser.h
@@ -33,8 +33,6 @@
 #define ssize_t intptr_t
 #endif
 
-/* $Id$ */
-
 #ifdef __cplusplus
 extern "C" {
 #endif
diff --git a/test.c b/test.c
index 2a93477..abcd0a9 100644
--- a/test.c
+++ b/test.c
@@ -146,6 +146,8 @@ static void test_request(void)
     PARSE("GET / HTTP/1.0\r\nfoo: a \t \r\n\r\n", 0, 0, "exclude leading and trailing spaces in header value");
     ok(bufis(headers[0].value, headers[0].value_len, "a"));
 
+    PARSE("GET   /   HTTP/1.0\r\n\r\n", 0, 0, "accept multiple spaces between tokens");
+
 #undef PARSE
 }
 
@@ -245,6 +247,8 @@ static void test_response(void)
     PARSE("HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\nbar: \t b\t \t\r\n\r\n", 0, 0, "exclude leading and trailing spaces in header value");
     ok(bufis(headers[0].value, headers[0].value_len, "b"));
 
+    PARSE("HTTP/1.1   200   OK\r\n\r\n", 0, 0, "accept multiple spaces between tokens");
+
 #undef PARSE
 }