diff --git a/src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/handler/codec/http/HttpMessageEncoder.java b/src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/handler/codec/http/HttpMessageEncoder.java
index 4cd002e8cc..5f5b992c25 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/handler/codec/http/HttpMessageEncoder.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/handler/codec/http/HttpMessageEncoder.java
@@ -63,9 +63,7 @@ public abstract class HttpMessageEncoder extends OneToOneEncoder {
             } else {
                 return wrappedBuffer(header, content);
             }
-        }
-
-        if (msg instanceof HttpChunk) {
+        } else if (msg instanceof HttpChunk) {
             HttpChunk chunk = (HttpChunk) msg;
             if (chunk.isLast()) {
                 return LAST_CHUNK.duplicate();