diff --git a/src/ext.rs b/src/ext.rs
index 2177351493..e6b29fa529 100644
--- a/src/ext.rs
+++ b/src/ext.rs
@@ -99,6 +99,11 @@ pub struct HeaderCaseMap(HeaderMap<Bytes>);
 
 #[cfg(feature = "http1")]
 impl HeaderCaseMap {
+    /// Thank you hyper for not just making this public to being with
+    pub fn get(&self, key: HeaderName) -> Option<&Bytes> {
+        self.0.get(key)
+    }
+
     /// Returns a view of all spellings associated with that header name,
     /// in the order they were found.
     pub(crate) fn get_all<'a>(