diff --git a/src/aws-signature.ts b/src/aws-signature.ts
index e52831d..30b094b 100644
--- a/src/aws-signature.ts
+++ b/src/aws-signature.ts
@@ -64,6 +64,12 @@ async function createCanonicalRequest(request: Request, isQueryAuth: boolean): P
                 if (port && !((url.protocol === "https:" && port === "443") || (url.protocol === "http:" && port === "80"))) {
                     headerValue += `:${port}`;
                 }
+            } else if (headerName === "accept-encoding") {
+                // Cloudflare's edge rewrites the incoming Accept-Encoding value before the Worker
+                // sees it, so the literal value can never be recovered here. S3 SDKs that sign this
+                // header (aws-sdk-go, used by rclone/mc) always set it to "identity" beforehand, since
+                // S3 doesn't support transparent content-encoding on object bodies.
+                headerValue = "identity";
             } else {
                 headerValue = request.headers.get(headerName)?.trim() ?? "";
             }
diff --git a/test/s3.test.ts b/test/s3.test.ts
index f5bd170..559a16f 100644
--- a/test/s3.test.ts
+++ b/test/s3.test.ts
@@ -215,6 +215,16 @@ describe("S3 compatibility", () => {
         expect(await missing.text()).toContain("<Code>NoSuchKey</Code>");
     });
 
+    it("verifies signatures that include Accept-Encoding even when the delivered value differs (Cloudflare rewrites it in transit)", async () => {
+        const original = await signed("/test-bucket/ae.txt", { method: "PUT", body: "hello", headers: { "accept-encoding": "identity" } });
+        const rewrittenHeaders = new Headers(original.headers);
+        rewrittenHeaders.set("accept-encoding", "gzip, deflate, br");
+        const mutated = new Request(original, { headers: rewrittenHeaders });
+
+        const response = await worker.fetch(mutated, ENV, CTX);
+        expect(response.status).toBe(200);
+    });
+
     it("decodes both aws-chunked framing variants across arbitrary boundaries", async () => {
         const payload = bytes(70_013);
         for (const trailer of [true, false]) {