diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/urls-proxy-validate.yaml b/changelogs/fragments/urls-proxy-validate.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..65f4aa6668d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/urls-proxy-validate.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+- 'urls - When validating SSL certs using an a non-SSL proxy, do not send "Connection: close" when requesting a tunnel. This prevents some proxy servers from dropping the connection (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/32750)'
diff --git a/lib/ansible/module_utils/urls.py b/lib/ansible/module_utils/urls.py
index cc75918d343..fd4130653bb 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/module_utils/urls.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/module_utils/urls.py
@@ -663,7 +663,7 @@ class SSLValidationHandler(urllib_request.BaseHandler):
     http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1087227/validate-ssl-certificates-with-python
     http://techknack.net/python-urllib2-handlers/
     '''
-    CONNECT_COMMAND = "CONNECT %s:%s HTTP/1.0\r\nConnection: close\r\n"
+    CONNECT_COMMAND = "CONNECT %s:%s HTTP/1.0\r\n"
 
     def __init__(self, hostname, port):
         self.hostname = hostname