diff --git a/plugins/websocket/guest-js/index.ts b/plugins/websocket/guest-js/index.ts
index ef34e6f3..4967b837 100644
--- a/plugins/websocket/guest-js/index.ts
+++ b/plugins/websocket/guest-js/index.ts
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ export interface ConnectionConfig {
   maxMessageSize?: number;
   maxFrameSize?: number;
   acceptUnmaskedFrames?: boolean;
-  headers?: Record<string, string>;
+  headers?: HeadersInit;
 }
 
 export interface MessageKind<T, D> {
@@ -44,6 +44,10 @@ export default class WebSocket {
       listeners.forEach((l) => l(message));
     };
 
+    if (config?.headers) {
+      config.headers = Array.from(new Headers(config.headers).entries());
+    }
+
     return await invoke<number>("plugin:websocket|connect", {
       url,
       callbackFunction: transformCallback(handler),
diff --git a/plugins/websocket/src/lib.rs b/plugins/websocket/src/lib.rs
index 03552aac..ad692d60 100644
--- a/plugins/websocket/src/lib.rs
+++ b/plugins/websocket/src/lib.rs
@@ -58,8 +58,7 @@ pub struct ConnectionConfig {
     pub max_frame_size: Option<usize>,
     #[serde(default)]
     pub accept_unmasked_frames: bool,
-    #[serde(default)]
-    pub headers: HashMap<String, String>,
+    pub headers: Option<Vec<(String, String)>>,
 }
 
 impl From<ConnectionConfig> for WebSocketConfig {
@@ -105,14 +104,12 @@ async fn connect<R: Runtime>(
     let id = rand::random();
     let mut request = url.into_client_request()?;
 
-    if let Some(ref config) = config {
-        let config_headers = config.headers.iter().map(|(k, v)| {
+    if let Some(headers) = config.as_ref().and_then(|c| c.headers.as_ref()) {
+        for (k, v) in headers {
             let header_name = HeaderName::from_str(k.as_str())?;
             let header_value = HeaderValue::from_str(v.as_str())?;
-            Ok((header_name, header_value))
-        });
-
-        request.headers_mut().extend(config_headers.filter_map(Result::ok));
+            request.headers_mut().insert(header_name, header_value);
+        }
     }
 
     let (ws_stream, _) = connect_async_with_config(request, config.map(Into::into), false).await?;
diff --git a/tsconfig.base.json b/tsconfig.base.json
index 1eebbeb6..629a7c96 100644
--- a/tsconfig.base.json
+++ b/tsconfig.base.json
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
   "compilerOptions": {
     "allowSyntheticDefaultImports": true,
     "esModuleInterop": true,
-    "lib": ["ES2019", "ES2020.Promise", "ES2020.String", "DOM"],
+    "lib": ["ES2019", "ES2020.Promise", "ES2020.String", "DOM", "DOM.Iterable"],
     "module": "ESNext",
     "moduleResolution": "node",
     "noEmit": true,