diff --git a/helpers.go b/helpers.go
index 319d3de..536e2f5 100644
--- a/helpers.go
+++ b/helpers.go
@@ -9,9 +9,10 @@ import (
 )
 
 // DoRequestNoRead makes a request and returns the response
-// Compared to DoRequest, this function does not read the response body
-// This function encapsulates the boilerplate for logging
+// Compared to DoRequest, this function does not read the response body, and it uses the Content-Length header for the associated log attribute.
+// This function encapsulates the boilerplate for logging.
 func DoRequestNoRead(req *http.Request) (*http.Response, error) {
+	// Log the request
 	log.Debug().Str("method", req.Method).Str("host", req.Host).Str("path", req.URL.Path).Msg("Request")
 
 	start := time.Now()
@@ -64,7 +65,6 @@ func DoRequest(req *http.Request) (*http.Response, []byte, error) {
 // ApplySclaHeaders applies headers to a request for thescla.org
 func ApplySclaHeaders(req *http.Request) {
 	req.Header.Set("Origin", "http://www2.thescla.org")
-	req.Header.Set("Connection", "keep-alive")
 	req.Header.Set("User-Agent", "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:122.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/122.0")
 	req.Header.Set("Accept", "application/json, text/javascript, */*; q=0.01")
 	req.Header.Set("Accept-Language", "en-US,en;q=0.5")
@@ -73,7 +73,6 @@ func ApplySclaHeaders(req *http.Request) {
 
 // ApplyUtsaHeaders applies headers to a request for utsa.edu
 func ApplyUtsaHeaders(req *http.Request) {
-	req.Header.Set("Connection", "keep-alive")
 	req.Header.Set("User-Agent", "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:122.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/122.0")
 	req.Header.Set("Accept", "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8")
 	req.Header.Set("Accept-Language", "en-US,en;q=0.5")