diff --git a/Web/Authenticate/OAuth.hs b/Web/Authenticate/OAuth.hs
index d48175be..5a7f0300 100644
--- a/Web/Authenticate/OAuth.hs
+++ b/Web/Authenticate/OAuth.hs
@@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ addAuthHeader (Credential cred) req =
   req { requestHeaders = insertMap "Authorization" (renderAuthHeader cred) $ requestHeaders req }
 
 renderAuthHeader :: [(BS.ByteString, BS.ByteString)] -> BS.ByteString
-renderAuthHeader = ("OAuth " `BS.append`). BS.intercalate "," . map (\(a,b) -> BS.concat [paramEncode a, "=\"",  paramEncode b, "\""]) . filter ((`elem` ["realm", "oauth_token", "oauth_verifier", "oauth_consumer_key", "oauth_signature_method", "oauth_timestamp", "oauth_nonce", "oauth_version", "oauth_callback", "oauth_signature"]) . fst)
+renderAuthHeader = ("OAuth realm="\"\"," `BS.append`). BS.intercalate "," . map (\(a,b) -> BS.concat [paramEncode a, "=\"",  paramEncode b, "\""]) . filter ((`elem` ["realm", "oauth_token", "oauth_verifier", "oauth_consumer_key", "oauth_signature_method", "oauth_timestamp", "oauth_nonce", "oauth_version", "oauth_callback", "oauth_signature"]) . fst)
 
 -- | Encode a string using the percent encoding method for OAuth.
 paramEncode :: BS.ByteString -> BS.ByteString