diff --git a/tests/test_warcprox.py b/tests/test_warcprox.py
index b24a5c8..1752b94 100755
--- a/tests/test_warcprox.py
+++ b/tests/test_warcprox.py
@@ -555,6 +555,22 @@ def test_limits(http_daemon, warcprox_, archiving_proxies):
     assert response.headers["content-type"] == "text/plain;charset=utf-8"
     assert response.raw.data == b"request rejected by warcprox: reached limit test_limits_bucket/total/urls=10\n"
 
+def test_return_capture_timestamp(http_daemon, warcprox_, archiving_proxies):
+    url = 'http://localhost:{}/i/j'.format(http_daemon.server_port)
+    request_meta = {"accept": ["capture-metadata"]}
+    headers = {"Warcprox-Meta": json.dumps(request_meta)}
+    response = requests.get(url, proxies=archiving_proxies, headers=headers, stream=True)
+    assert response.status_code == 200
+    assert response.headers['Warcprox-Meta']
+    data = json.loads(response.headers['Warcprox-Meta'])
+    assert data['capture-metadata']
+    try:
+        dt = datetime.datetime.strptime(data['capture-metadata']['timestamp'],
+                                        '%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ')
+        assert dt
+    except ValueError:
+        pytest.fail('Invalid capture-timestamp format %s', data['capture-timestamp'])
+
 def test_dedup_buckets(https_daemon, http_daemon, warcprox_, archiving_proxies, playback_proxies):
     url1 = 'http://localhost:{}/k/l'.format(http_daemon.server_port)
     url2 = 'https://localhost:{}/k/l'.format(https_daemon.server_port)
diff --git a/warcprox/mitmproxy.py b/warcprox/mitmproxy.py
index 914fb52..b14cddf 100644
--- a/warcprox/mitmproxy.py
+++ b/warcprox/mitmproxy.py
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ try:
     http_client._MAXLINE = 4194304  # 4 MiB
 except ImportError:
     import httplib as http_client
+import json
 import socket
 import logging
 import ssl
@@ -163,13 +164,17 @@ class ProxyingRecordingHTTPResponse(http_client.HTTPResponse):
                 self.fp, proxy_client, digest_algorithm, url=url)
         self.fp = self.recorder
 
-    def begin(self):
+    def begin(self, extra_response_headers={}):
         http_client.HTTPResponse.begin(self)  # reads status line, headers
 
         status_and_headers = 'HTTP/1.1 {} {}\r\n'.format(
                 self.status, self.reason)
         self.msg['Via'] = via_header_value(
                 self.msg.get('Via'), '%0.1f' % (self.version / 10.0))
+        if extra_response_headers:
+            for header, value in extra_response_headers.items():
+                self.msg[header] = value
+
         for k,v in self.msg.items():
             if k.lower() not in (
                     'connection', 'proxy-connection', 'keep-alive',
@@ -361,12 +366,16 @@ class MitmProxyHandler(http_server.BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
             self.logger.error("exception proxying request", exc_info=True)
             raise
 
-    def _proxy_request(self):
+    def _proxy_request(self, extra_response_headers={}):
         '''
         Sends the request to the remote server, then uses a ProxyingRecorder to
         read the response and send it to the proxy client, while recording the
         bytes in transit. Returns a tuple (request, response) where request is
         the raw request bytes, and response is a ProxyingRecorder.
+
+        :param extra_response_headers: generated on warcprox._proxy_request.
+        It may contain extra HTTP headers such as ``Warcprox-Meta`` which
+        are written in the WARC record for this request.
         '''
         # Build request
         req_str = '{} {} {}\r\n'.format(
@@ -407,7 +416,7 @@ class MitmProxyHandler(http_server.BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
                     self._remote_server_sock, proxy_client=self.connection,
                     digest_algorithm=self.server.digest_algorithm,
                     url=self.url, method=self.command)
-            prox_rec_res.begin()
+            prox_rec_res.begin(extra_response_headers=extra_response_headers)
 
             buf = prox_rec_res.read(8192)
             while buf != b'':
diff --git a/warcprox/warcproxy.py b/warcprox/warcproxy.py
index 06983ed..d37e588 100644
--- a/warcprox/warcproxy.py
+++ b/warcprox/warcproxy.py
@@ -179,9 +179,14 @@ class WarcProxyHandler(warcprox.mitmproxy.MitmProxyHandler):
 
         remote_ip = self._remote_server_sock.getpeername()[0]
         timestamp = datetime.datetime.utcnow()
+        extra_response_headers = {}
+        if warcprox_meta and 'accept' in warcprox_meta and \
+                'capture-metadata' in warcprox_meta['accept']:
+            rmeta = {'capture-metadata': {'timestamp': timestamp.strftime('%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ')}}
+            extra_response_headers['Warcprox-Meta'] = json.dumps(rmeta, separators=',:')
 
         req, prox_rec_res = warcprox.mitmproxy.MitmProxyHandler._proxy_request(
-                self)
+                self, extra_response_headers=extra_response_headers)
 
         content_type = None
         try: