diff --git a/typescript/fiddle-proxy/server.js b/typescript/fiddle-proxy/server.js
index ccc7b469d..959cb4340 100644
--- a/typescript/fiddle-proxy/server.js
+++ b/typescript/fiddle-proxy/server.js
@@ -87,6 +87,7 @@ app.use(
           for (const [header, value] of Object.entries(headers)) {
             proxyReq.setHeader(header, value)
           }
+          proxyReq.removeHeader('origin')
         } catch (err) {
           // This is not console.warn because it's not important
           console.log('baml-original-url is not parsable', err)
diff --git a/typescript/vscode-ext/packages/vscode/src/extension.ts b/typescript/vscode-ext/packages/vscode/src/extension.ts
index 68d512969..64b59c11e 100644
--- a/typescript/vscode-ext/packages/vscode/src/extension.ts
+++ b/typescript/vscode-ext/packages/vscode/src/extension.ts
@@ -203,9 +203,9 @@ export function activate(context: vscode.ExtensionContext) {
         // Extract the original target URL from the custom header
         let originalUrl = req.headers['baml-original-url']
         if (typeof originalUrl === 'string') {
+          // For some reason, Node doesn't like deleting headers in the proxyReq function.
           delete req.headers['baml-original-url']
-
-          req.headers['origin'] = `http://localhost:${port}`
+          delete req.headers['origin']
 
           // Ensure the URL does not end with a slash
           if (originalUrl.endsWith('/')) {
@@ -218,6 +218,9 @@ export function activate(context: vscode.ExtensionContext) {
       },
       logger: console,
       on: {
+        proxyReq: (proxyReq, req, res) => {
+          console.debug('Proxying an LLM request (to bypass CORS)', { proxyReq, req, res })
+        },
         proxyRes: (proxyRes, req, res) => {
           proxyRes.headers['Access-Control-Allow-Origin'] = '*'
         },