diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index f75692b0e..fd2d7bbf3 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ ver 0.21.2 (not yet released)
   - ffmpeg: require FFmpeg 3.1 or later
   - ffmpeg: fix broken sound with certain codecs
 * output
-  - httpd: fix crash with "always_on"
+  - httpd: fix two crash bugs
 * fix zlib support
 
 ver 0.21.1 (2018/11/04)
diff --git a/src/output/plugins/httpd/HttpdClient.hxx b/src/output/plugins/httpd/HttpdClient.hxx
index f43c508d9..36da0a5ee 100644
--- a/src/output/plugins/httpd/HttpdClient.hxx
+++ b/src/output/plugins/httpd/HttpdClient.hxx
@@ -98,8 +98,11 @@ class HttpdClient final
 
 	/**
 	 * If the current metadata was already sent to the client.
+	 *
+	 * Initialized to `true` because there is no metadata #Page
+	 * pending to be sent.
 	 */
-	bool metadata_sent = false;
+	bool metadata_sent = true;
 
 	/**
 	 * The amount of streaming data between each metadata block