diff --git a/pywb/rewrite/header_rewriter.py b/pywb/rewrite/header_rewriter.py
index d11b0405..57d4f34f 100644
--- a/pywb/rewrite/header_rewriter.py
+++ b/pywb/rewrite/header_rewriter.py
@@ -58,6 +58,8 @@ class DefaultHeaderRewriter(object):
 
         'set-cookie': 'cookie',
 
+        'status': 'prefix',
+
         'strict-transport-security': 'prefix',
 
         'trailer': 'prefix',
diff --git a/pywb/rewrite/test/test_header_rewriter.py b/pywb/rewrite/test/test_header_rewriter.py
index 551a5441..98870221 100644
--- a/pywb/rewrite/test/test_header_rewriter.py
+++ b/pywb/rewrite/test/test_header_rewriter.py
@@ -111,7 +111,8 @@ X-Archive-Orig-Transfer-Encoding: chunked\r\n\
                    ('Set-Cookie', 'foo=bar; Path=/; abc=123; Path=/path.html'),
                    ('Content-Encoding', 'gzip'),
                    ('Transfer-Encoding', 'chunked'),
-                   ('X-Custom', 'test')]
+                   ('X-Custom', 'test'),
+                   ('Status', '200')]
 
         rwinfo = self.do_rewrite('200 OK', headers)
         http_headers = DefaultHeaderRewriter(rwinfo)()
@@ -126,7 +127,9 @@ X-Archive-Orig-Transfer-Encoding: chunked\r\n\
         assert(('X-Archive-Orig-Transfer-Encoding', 'chunked') in http_headers.headers)
         assert(('X-Custom', 'test') in http_headers.headers)
 
-        assert(len(http_headers.headers) == 7)
+        assert(('X-Archive-Orig-Status', '200') in http_headers.headers)
+
+        assert(len(http_headers.headers) == 8)
 
         assert rwinfo.text_type == None
         assert rwinfo.charset == None