diff --git a/pkg/handler/handler.go b/pkg/handler/handler.go
index 067841f..5808311 100644
--- a/pkg/handler/handler.go
+++ b/pkg/handler/handler.go
@@ -35,7 +35,9 @@ func NewHandler(config Config) (*Handler, error) {
 
 	mux := pat.New()
 
-	routedHandler.Handler = handler.Middleware(mux)
+	disconnectedHandler := handler.DisconnectMiddleware(mux)
+
+	routedHandler.Handler = handler.Middleware(disconnectedHandler)
 
 	mux.Post("", http.HandlerFunc(handler.PostFile))
 	mux.Head(":id", http.HandlerFunc(handler.HeadFile))
diff --git a/pkg/handler/unrouted_handler.go b/pkg/handler/unrouted_handler.go
index c8db15e..020fa96 100644
--- a/pkg/handler/unrouted_handler.go
+++ b/pkg/handler/unrouted_handler.go
@@ -271,10 +271,21 @@ func (handler *UnroutedHandler) Middleware(h http.Handler) http.Handler {
 	})
 }
 
+// DisconnectMiddleware does a deep clone of the request with an empty context so tusd
+// can continue to finish the file upload, even if the request aborts
+func (handler *UnroutedHandler) DisconnectMiddleware(h http.Handler) http.Handler {
+	return http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+		// disconnect the existing context to ignore cancels
+		r.Clone(context.Background())
+		// Proceed with routing the request
+		h.ServeHTTP(w, r)
+	})
+}
+
 // PostFile creates a new file upload using the datastore after validating the
 // length and parsing the metadata.
 func (handler *UnroutedHandler) PostFile(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
-	ctx := context.Background()
+	ctx := r.Context()
 
 	// Check for presence of application/offset+octet-stream. If another content
 	// type is defined, it will be ignored and treated as none was set because
@@ -414,7 +425,7 @@ func (handler *UnroutedHandler) PostFile(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request)
 
 // HeadFile returns the length and offset for the HEAD request
 func (handler *UnroutedHandler) HeadFile(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
-	ctx := context.Background()
+	ctx := r.Context()
 
 	id, err := extractIDFromPath(r.URL.Path)
 	if err != nil {
@@ -478,7 +489,7 @@ func (handler *UnroutedHandler) HeadFile(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request)
 // PatchFile adds a chunk to an upload. This operation is only allowed
 // if enough space in the upload is left.
 func (handler *UnroutedHandler) PatchFile(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
-	ctx := context.Background()
+	ctx := r.Context()
 
 	// Check for presence of application/offset+octet-stream
 	if r.Header.Get("Content-Type") != "application/offset+octet-stream" {
@@ -693,7 +704,7 @@ func (handler *UnroutedHandler) finishUploadIfComplete(ctx context.Context, uplo
 // GetFile handles requests to download a file using a GET request. This is not
 // part of the specification.
 func (handler *UnroutedHandler) GetFile(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
-	ctx := context.Background()
+	ctx := r.Context()
 
 	id, err := extractIDFromPath(r.URL.Path)
 	if err != nil {
@@ -814,7 +825,7 @@ func filterContentType(info FileInfo) (contentType string, contentDisposition st
 
 // DelFile terminates an upload permanently.
 func (handler *UnroutedHandler) DelFile(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
-	ctx := context.Background()
+	ctx := r.Context()
 
 	// Abort the request handling if the required interface is not implemented
 	if !handler.composer.UsesTerminater {