diff --git a/src/parse.c b/src/parse.c
index 7cda9e5..d791169 100644
--- a/src/parse.c
+++ b/src/parse.c
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * https://www.logswan.org
  *
  * Created:      2015-05-31
- * Last Updated: 2021-02-15
+ * Last Updated: 2021-12-02
  *
  * Logswan is released under the BSD 2-Clause license.
  * See LICENSE file for details.
@@ -60,6 +60,8 @@ parse_request(struct request *parsed_request, char *request)
 {
 	char *pch = strrchr(request, ' ');
 
+	memset(parsed_request, 0, sizeof(*parsed_request));
+
 	if (pch) {
 		parsed_request->protocol = pch + 1;
 		parsed_request->method = strtok(request, " ");