diff --git a/packages/gitbook/src/lib/visitors.test.ts b/packages/gitbook/src/lib/visitors.test.ts
index d70ec19ad..b4ea12a7c 100644
--- a/packages/gitbook/src/lib/visitors.test.ts
+++ b/packages/gitbook/src/lib/visitors.test.ts
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ import {
     getVisitorToken,
     getVisitorType,
     getVisitorUnsignedClaims,
+    isRevalidationRequest,
     normalizeVisitorURL,
 } from './visitors';
 
@@ -564,3 +565,16 @@ describe('getVisitorType', () => {
         expect(getVisitorType(requestWith({ 'user-agent': '' }))).toBe('human');
     });
 });
+
+describe('isRevalidationRequest', () => {
+    it('should detect the revalidation worker regardless of casing', () => {
+        expect(
+            isRevalidationRequest(new Headers({ 'User-Agent': 'GitBook-Open-Revalidation-Worker' }))
+        ).toBe(true);
+    });
+
+    it('should not detect a regular request', () => {
+        expect(isRevalidationRequest(new Headers({ 'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0' }))).toBe(false);
+        expect(isRevalidationRequest(new Headers())).toBe(false);
+    });
+});
diff --git a/packages/gitbook/src/lib/visitors.ts b/packages/gitbook/src/lib/visitors.ts
index 29d92e145..033aa13c8 100644
--- a/packages/gitbook/src/lib/visitors.ts
+++ b/packages/gitbook/src/lib/visitors.ts
@@ -132,6 +132,14 @@ export function getVisitorData({
     };
 }
 
+/**
+ * Check if the request is coming from our revalidation worker. Such requests carry the visitor
+ * data they want to revalidate in the URL, so we must not redirect them to a normalized URL.
+ */
+export function isRevalidationRequest(headers: Headers): boolean {
+    return headers.get('user-agent')?.toLowerCase() === 'gitbook-open-revalidation-worker';
+}
+
 /**
  * Get the visitor token for the request. This token can either be in the
  * query parameters or stored as a cookie.
@@ -154,7 +162,7 @@ export function getVisitorToken({
 
     // Allow the empty string to come through
     if (fromUrl !== null && fromUrl !== undefined) {
-        if (headers.get('user-agent')?.toLowerCase() === 'gitbook-open-revalidation-worker') {
+        if (isRevalidationRequest(headers)) {
             return { source: 'revalidation', token: fromUrl };
         }
 
diff --git a/packages/gitbook/src/middleware.ts b/packages/gitbook/src/middleware.ts
index f1e491808..eaa2bf5d3 100644
--- a/packages/gitbook/src/middleware.ts
+++ b/packages/gitbook/src/middleware.ts
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ import {
     getResponseCookiesForVisitorAuth,
     getVisitorData,
     getVisitorType,
+    isRevalidationRequest,
     normalizeVisitorURL,
     serveVisitorClaimsDataRequest,
 } from '@/lib/visitors';
@@ -339,7 +340,9 @@ async function serveSiteRoutes(requestURL: URL, request: NextRequest) {
         // Make sure the URL is clean of any va token after a successful lookup,
         // and of any visitor.* params that may have been passed to the URL.
         //
-        // We only redirect if the visitor token is not coming from a revalidation request, as we don't want to redirect in that case.
+        // We only redirect if the request is not coming from the revalidation worker, as we don't
+        // want to redirect in that case. It can carry unsigned claims without any token, so we rely
+        // on the request headers rather than on the visitor token source.
         //
         // The token and the visitor.* params value are stored in cookies that are set
         // on the redirect response.
@@ -347,7 +350,7 @@ async function serveSiteRoutes(requestURL: URL, request: NextRequest) {
         const normalizedVisitorURL = normalizeVisitorURL(incomingURL);
         if (
             normalizedVisitorURL.toString() !== incomingURL.toString() &&
-            visitorToken?.source !== 'revalidation'
+            !isRevalidationRequest(request.headers)
         ) {
             return writeResponseCookies(
                 NextResponse.redirect(normalizedVisitorURL.toString()),