diff --git a/lib/_http_outgoing.js b/lib/_http_outgoing.js
index 0522ecb2a276f2..0b725d5ba748fa 100644
--- a/lib/_http_outgoing.js
+++ b/lib/_http_outgoing.js
@@ -133,12 +133,6 @@ OutgoingMessage.prototype._writeRaw = function(data, encoding, callback) {
     encoding = null;
   }
 
-  if (data.length === 0) {
-    if (typeof callback === 'function')
-      process.nextTick(callback);
-    return true;
-  }
-
   var connection = this.connection;
   if (connection &&
       connection._httpMessage === this &&
@@ -158,6 +152,10 @@ OutgoingMessage.prototype._writeRaw = function(data, encoding, callback) {
       this.output = [];
       this.outputEncodings = [];
       this.outputCallbacks = [];
+    } else if (data.length === 0) {
+      if (typeof callback === 'function')
+        process.nextTick(callback);
+      return true;
     }
 
     // Directly write to socket.
diff --git a/src/stream_base.cc b/src/stream_base.cc
index 3139274c6fce34..27ae0fee7b1309 100644
--- a/src/stream_base.cc
+++ b/src/stream_base.cc
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ int StreamBase::Writev(const FunctionCallbackInfo<Value>& args) {
 
     // Write string
     offset = ROUND_UP(offset, WriteWrap::kAlignSize);
-    CHECK_LT(offset, storage_size);
+    CHECK_LE(offset, storage_size);
     char* str_storage = req_wrap->Extra(offset);
     size_t str_size = storage_size - offset;
 
diff --git a/test/parallel/test-http-pipeline-regr-2639.js b/test/parallel/test-http-pipeline-regr-2639.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..f1f75bff650ac5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/parallel/test-http-pipeline-regr-2639.js
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+'use strict';
+const common = require('../common');
+const assert = require('assert');
+const http = require('http');
+const net = require('net');
+
+const COUNT = 10;
+
+var received = 0;
+
+var server = http.createServer(function(req, res) {
+  // Close the server, we have only one TCP connection anyway
+  if (received++ === 0)
+    server.close();
+
+  res.writeHead(200);
+  res.write('data');
+
+  setTimeout(function() {
+    res.end();
+  }, (Math.random() * 100) | 0);
+}).listen(common.PORT, function() {
+  const s = net.connect(common.PORT);
+
+  var big = '';
+  for (var i = 0; i < COUNT; i++)
+    big += 'GET / HTTP/1.0\r\n\r\n';
+  s.write(big);
+  s.resume();
+});
+
+process.on('exit', function() {
+  assert.equal(received, COUNT);
+});