diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 2c024a6..88ca54e 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 
 # Next
 
+- Fixes:
+    - `header` matcher now accepts a single header value containing commas (e.g. an RFC 2822 date such as `Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT`). Previously the received value was always split on `,`, which caused such matchers to fail.
+
 # `0.5.8`
 
 - Features:
diff --git a/src/matchers.rs b/src/matchers.rs
index b9650dc..8bfcf68 100644
--- a/src/matchers.rs
+++ b/src/matchers.rs
@@ -396,9 +396,13 @@ impl HeaderExactMatcher {
 
 impl Match for HeaderExactMatcher {
     fn matches(&self, request: &Request) -> bool {
-        let values = request
-            .headers
-            .get_all(&self.0)
+        let raw_values: Vec<&HeaderValue> = request.headers.get_all(&self.0).iter().collect();
+        if raw_values.len() == self.1.len()
+            && raw_values.iter().zip(self.1.iter()).all(|(a, b)| *a == b)
+        {
+            return true;
+        }
+        let split_values = raw_values
             .iter()
             .filter_map(|v| v.to_str().ok())
             .flat_map(|v| {
@@ -407,7 +411,7 @@ impl Match for HeaderExactMatcher {
                     .filter_map(|v| HeaderValue::from_str(v).ok())
             })
             .collect::<Vec<_>>();
-        values == self.1 // order matters
+        split_values == self.1
     }
 }
 
diff --git a/tests/request_header_matching.rs b/tests/request_header_matching.rs
index 37472c0..cbd77bd 100644
--- a/tests/request_header_matching.rs
+++ b/tests/request_header_matching.rs
@@ -158,6 +158,28 @@ async fn should_not_match_multi_request_header_upon_incomplete_values() {
     assert_eq!(should_fail_incomplete_values.status(), 404);
 }
 
+#[async_std::test]
+async fn should_match_single_header_value_containing_comma() {
+    // Arrange
+    let mock_server = MockServer::start().await;
+    let mock = Mock::given(method("GET"))
+        .and(header("x-ms-date", "Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT"))
+        .respond_with(ResponseTemplate::new(200));
+    mock_server.register(mock).await;
+
+    // Act
+    let client = reqwest::Client::new();
+    let should_match = client
+        .get(mock_server.uri())
+        .header("x-ms-date", "Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT")
+        .send()
+        .await
+        .unwrap();
+
+    // Assert
+    assert_eq!(should_match.status(), 200);
+}
+
 #[async_std::test]
 async fn should_match_regex_single_header_value() {
     // Arrange