diff --git a/scripts/base/protocols/http/main.bro b/scripts/base/protocols/http/main.bro
index e74ffaa8d4..752e9bba10 100644
--- a/scripts/base/protocols/http/main.bro
+++ b/scripts/base/protocols/http/main.bro
@@ -41,6 +41,8 @@ export {
 		## misspelled like the standard declares, but the name used here
 		## is "referrer" spelled correctly.
 		referrer:                string    &log &optional;
+		## Value of the version portion of the request
+		version:		string	   &log &optional;
 		## Value of the User-Agent header from the client.
 		user_agent:              string    &log &optional;
 		## Actual uncompressed content size of the data transferred from
@@ -222,6 +224,8 @@ event http_reply(c: connection, version: string, code: count, reason: string) &p
 
 	c$http$status_code = code;
 	c$http$status_msg = reason;
+	c$http$version = version;
+	
 	if ( code_in_range(code, 100, 199) )
 		{
 		c$http$info_code = code;