diff --git a/server/util.c b/server/util.c
index fba34bd..7335a0f 100644
--- a/server/util.c
+++ b/server/util.c
@@ -1679,10 +1679,8 @@ AP_DECLARE(int) ap_find_token(apr_pool_t *p, const char *line, const char *tok)
 
     s = (const unsigned char *)line;
     for (;;) {
-        /* find start of token, skip all stop characters, note NUL
-         * isn't a token stop, so we don't need to test for it
-         */
-        while (TEST_CHAR(*s, T_HTTP_TOKEN_STOP)) {
+        /* find start of token, skip all stop characters */
+        while (*s && TEST_CHAR(*s, T_HTTP_TOKEN_STOP)) {
             ++s;
         }
         if (!*s) {