diff --git a/pkg/input/types/http.go b/pkg/input/types/http.go
index 9c2cddf688..47b3a9ac13 100644
--- a/pkg/input/types/http.go
+++ b/pkg/input/types/http.go
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/useragent"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/utils/conversion"
 	mapsutil "github.com/projectdiscovery/utils/maps"
+	stringsutil "github.com/projectdiscovery/utils/strings"
 	urlutil "github.com/projectdiscovery/utils/url"
 )
 
@@ -239,25 +240,25 @@ func ParseRawRequest(raw string) (rr *RequestResponse, err error) {
 	method := parts[0]
 	rr.Request.Method = method
 
-	// parse relative url
-	urlx, err := urlutil.ParseRawRelativePath(parts[1], true)
+	// the request target is normally an origin-form path, but proxy captures and
+	// .http files use the absolute form, which already carries the authority
+	var urlx *urlutil.URL
+	target := parts[1]
+	if stringsutil.HasPrefixAnyI(target, urlutil.HTTP+urlutil.SchemeSeparator, urlutil.HTTPS+urlutil.SchemeSeparator) {
+		// urlutil.ParseAbsoluteURL only accepts lowercase schemes; preserve the
+		// remainder of the request target unchanged.
+		if scheme, rest, ok := strings.Cut(target, urlutil.SchemeSeparator); ok {
+			target = strings.ToLower(scheme) + urlutil.SchemeSeparator + rest
+		}
+		urlx, err = urlutil.ParseAbsoluteURL(target, true)
+	} else {
+		urlx, err = urlutil.ParseRawRelativePath(target, true)
+	}
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to parse url: %s", err)
 	}
 	rr.URL = *urlx
 
-	// parse host line
-	hostLine, err := protoReader.ReadLine()
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to read host line: %s", err)
-	}
-	sep := strings.Index(hostLine, ":")
-	if sep <= 0 || sep >= len(hostLine)-1 {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("invalid host line: %s", hostLine)
-	}
-	hostLine = hostLine[sep+2:]
-	rr.URL.Host = hostLine
-
 	// parse headers
 	rr.Request.Headers = mapsutil.NewOrderedMap[string, string]()
 	for {
@@ -269,11 +270,23 @@ func ParseRawRequest(raw string) (rr *RequestResponse, err error) {
 			// end of headers next is body
 			break
 		}
-		parts := strings.SplitN(line, ":", 2)
-		if len(parts) != 2 {
+		key, value, found := strings.Cut(line, ":")
+		if !found || key == "" {
 			return nil, fmt.Errorf("invalid header line: %s", line)
 		}
-		rr.Request.Headers.Set(parts[0], parts[1][1:])
+		value = strings.TrimSpace(value)
+		// Host carries the authority rather than request metadata, and callers
+		// read it off the URL: retryablehttp derives the wire Host from there,
+		// and keeping it in the header map would expose it to header fuzzing as
+		// if it were an ordinary header.
+		if strings.EqualFold(key, "Host") {
+			// an absolute request target takes precedence over the Host header
+			if rr.URL.Host == "" {
+				rr.URL.Host = value
+			}
+			continue
+		}
+		rr.Request.Headers.Set(key, value)
 	}
 
 	// parse body
diff --git a/pkg/input/types/http_test.go b/pkg/input/types/http_test.go
index 8cc44e39cb..cb407080d9 100644
--- a/pkg/input/types/http_test.go
+++ b/pkg/input/types/http_test.go
@@ -121,6 +121,139 @@ func TestParseRawRequestBodyTrailingNewlines(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+// Headers used to be parsed positionally: the second line was always taken as
+// the Host line and dropped from the header map, and values were read by
+// skipping a single byte after the colon. Any request-shaped input (burp, jsonl,
+// yaml, openapi) hitting one of these shapes either lost a header silently,
+// truncated a value, or crashed the whole scan.
+func TestParseRawRequestHeaderParsing(t *testing.T) {
+	tests := []struct {
+		name    string
+		raw     string
+		host    string
+		headers map[string]string
+	}{
+		{
+			name:    "host first",
+			raw:     "POST /login HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: example.com\r\nContent-Type: application/json\r\n\r\n{}",
+			host:    "example.com",
+			headers: map[string]string{"Content-Type": "application/json"},
+		},
+		{
+			name:    "host after other headers",
+			raw:     "POST /login HTTP/1.1\r\nContent-Type: application/json\r\nHost: example.com\r\n\r\n{}",
+			host:    "example.com",
+			headers: map[string]string{"Content-Type": "application/json"},
+		},
+		{
+			name:    "host absent",
+			raw:     "POST /login HTTP/1.1\r\nContent-Type: application/json\r\n\r\n{}",
+			host:    "",
+			headers: map[string]string{"Content-Type": "application/json"},
+		},
+		{
+			name:    "no space after colon",
+			raw:     "GET / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost:example.com\r\nX-Token:abc\r\n\r\n",
+			host:    "example.com",
+			headers: map[string]string{"X-Token": "abc"},
+		},
+		{
+			name:    "valueless header",
+			raw:     "GET / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: example.com\r\nX-Empty:\r\n\r\n",
+			host:    "example.com",
+			headers: map[string]string{"X-Empty": ""},
+		},
+		{
+			name:    "lowercase host key",
+			raw:     "GET / HTTP/1.1\r\ncontent-type: text/plain\r\nhost: example.com\r\n\r\n",
+			host:    "example.com",
+			headers: map[string]string{"content-type": "text/plain"},
+		},
+	}
+
+	for _, tt := range tests {
+		t.Run(tt.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			var rr *RequestResponse
+			var err error
+			require.NotPanics(t, func() {
+				rr, err = ParseRawRequest(tt.raw)
+			})
+			require.NoError(t, err)
+			require.Equal(t, tt.host, rr.URL.Host)
+
+			got := map[string]string{}
+			rr.Request.Headers.Iterate(func(k, v string) bool {
+				got[k] = v
+				return true
+			})
+			require.Equal(t, tt.headers, got)
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+// Requests captured through a proxy carry an absolute request target, which the
+// parser used to append to the authority as if it were a path.
+func TestParseRawRequestAbsoluteTarget(t *testing.T) {
+	tests := []struct {
+		name string
+		raw  string
+		url  string
+		host string
+		path string
+	}{
+		{
+			name: "absolute target",
+			raw:  "GET http://example.com/p?q=1 HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: example.com\r\n\r\n",
+			url:  "http://example.com/p?q=1",
+		},
+		{
+			name: "absolute target wins over host header",
+			raw:  "GET https://example.com/p HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: proxy.internal\r\n\r\n",
+			url:  "https://example.com/p",
+		},
+		{
+			name: "uppercase scheme absolute target",
+			raw:  "GET HTTP://example.com/p?q=1 HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: example.com\r\n\r\n",
+			url:  "http://example.com/p?q=1",
+			host: "example.com",
+			path: "/p",
+		},
+		{
+			name: "mixed-case https absolute target wins over host",
+			raw:  "GET Https://Example.COM/p HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: proxy.internal\r\n\r\n",
+			url:  "https://Example.COM/p",
+			host: "Example.COM",
+			path: "/p",
+		},
+		{
+			name: "origin form keeps host header",
+			raw:  "GET /p HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: example.com\r\n\r\n",
+			url:  "example.com/p",
+		},
+	}
+
+	for _, tt := range tests {
+		t.Run(tt.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			rr, err := ParseRawRequest(tt.raw)
+			require.NoError(t, err)
+			require.Equal(t, tt.url, rr.URL.String())
+			if tt.host != "" {
+				require.Equal(t, tt.host, rr.URL.Host)
+			}
+			if tt.path != "" {
+				require.Equal(t, tt.path, rr.URL.Path)
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+// A header line without a colon is not a header, and must not be mistaken for
+// the start of the body.
+func TestParseRawRequestRejectsMalformedHeader(t *testing.T) {
+	_, err := ParseRawRequest("GET / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: example.com\r\nnot-a-header\r\n\r\n")
+	require.Error(t, err)
+}
+
 func TestUnmarshalJSON(t *testing.T) {
 	tests := []struct {
 		name           string