diff --git a/src/network/access/qhttp2protocolhandler.cpp b/src/network/access/qhttp2protocolhandler.cpp
index 08dfa02624d..251d17b0b4f 100644
--- a/src/network/access/qhttp2protocolhandler.cpp
+++ b/src/network/access/qhttp2protocolhandler.cpp
@@ -73,12 +73,10 @@ HPack::HttpHeader build_headers(const QHttpNetworkRequest &request, quint32 maxH
         if (size.second > maxHeaderListSize)
             break;
 
-        if (name.compare("connection", Qt::CaseInsensitive) == 0 ||
-                name.compare("host", Qt::CaseInsensitive) == 0 ||
-                name.compare("keep-alive", Qt::CaseInsensitive) == 0 ||
-                name.compare("proxy-connection", Qt::CaseInsensitive) == 0 ||
-                name.compare("transfer-encoding", Qt::CaseInsensitive) == 0)
+        if (name == "connection"_L1 || name == "host"_L1 || name == "keep-alive"_L1
+            || name == "proxy-connection"_L1 || name == "transfer-encoding"_L1) {
             continue; // Those headers are not valid (section 3.2.1) - from QSpdyProtocolHandler
+        }
         // TODO: verify with specs, which fields are valid to send ....
         //
         // Note: RFC 7450 8.1.2 (HTTP/2) states that header field names must be lower-cased
diff --git a/src/network/access/qnetworkreplyhttpimpl.cpp b/src/network/access/qnetworkreplyhttpimpl.cpp
index a5f2d91f0dd..26c0926c7f4 100644
--- a/src/network/access/qnetworkreplyhttpimpl.cpp
+++ b/src/network/access/qnetworkreplyhttpimpl.cpp
@@ -1373,12 +1373,10 @@ void QNetworkReplyHttpImplPrivate::replyDownloadMetaData(const QHttpHeaders &hm,
         // Reset any previous "location" header set in the reply. In case of
         // redirects, we don't want to 'append' multiple location header values,
         // rather we keep only the latest one
-        if (key.compare(locationHeader(), Qt::CaseInsensitive) == 0)
+        if (key == locationHeader())
             value.clear();
 
-        if (shouldDecompress && !decompressHelper.isValid()
-            && key.compare("content-encoding", Qt::CaseInsensitive) == 0) {
-
+        if (shouldDecompress && !decompressHelper.isValid() && key == "content-encoding"_L1) {
             if (!synchronous) // with synchronous all the data is expected to be handled at once
                 decompressHelper.setCountingBytesEnabled(true);
 
@@ -1395,7 +1393,7 @@ void QNetworkReplyHttpImplPrivate::replyDownloadMetaData(const QHttpHeaders &hm,
         if (!value.isEmpty()) {
             // Why are we appending values for headers which are already
             // present?
-            if (key.compare("set-cookie", Qt::CaseInsensitive) == 0)
+            if (key == "set-cookie"_L1)
                 value += '\n';
             else
                 value += ", ";