diff --git a/src/SignalR/common/Http.Connections.Common/src/NegotiateProtocol.cs b/src/SignalR/common/Http.Connections.Common/src/NegotiateProtocol.cs
index a23a9d6c0b..93035f0613 100644
--- a/src/SignalR/common/Http.Connections.Common/src/NegotiateProtocol.cs
+++ b/src/SignalR/common/Http.Connections.Common/src/NegotiateProtocol.cs
@@ -222,13 +222,11 @@ namespace Microsoft.AspNetCore.Http.Connections
                 switch (reader.TokenType)
                 {
                     case JsonTokenType.PropertyName:
-                        var memberName = reader.ValueSpan;
-
-                        if (memberName.SequenceEqual(TransportPropertyNameBytes.EncodedUtf8Bytes))
+                        if (reader.ValueTextEquals(TransportPropertyNameBytes.EncodedUtf8Bytes))
                         {
                             availableTransport.Transport = reader.ReadAsString(TransportPropertyName);
                         }
-                        else if (memberName.SequenceEqual(TransferFormatsPropertyNameBytes.EncodedUtf8Bytes))
+                        else if (reader.ValueTextEquals(TransferFormatsPropertyNameBytes.EncodedUtf8Bytes))
                         {
                             reader.CheckRead();
                             reader.EnsureArrayStart();
diff --git a/src/SignalR/common/Http.Connections/test/NegotiateProtocolTests.cs b/src/SignalR/common/Http.Connections/test/NegotiateProtocolTests.cs
index e92d3c3b42..ed6a1d1a2d 100644
--- a/src/SignalR/common/Http.Connections/test/NegotiateProtocolTests.cs
+++ b/src/SignalR/common/Http.Connections/test/NegotiateProtocolTests.cs
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ namespace Microsoft.AspNetCore.Http.Connections.Tests
         [InlineData("{\"url\": \"http://foo.com/chat\"}", null, null, "http://foo.com/chat", null)]
         [InlineData("{\"url\": \"http://foo.com/chat\", \"accessToken\": \"token\"}", null, null, "http://foo.com/chat", "token")]
         [InlineData("{\"connectionId\":\"123\",\"availableTransports\":[{\"transport\":\"test\",\"transferFormats\":[]}]}", "123", new[] { "test" }, null, null)]
+        [InlineData("{\"connectionId\":\"123\",\"availableTransports\":[{\"\\u0074ransport\":\"test\",\"transferFormats\":[]}]}", "123", new[] { "test" }, null, null)]
         public void ParsingNegotiateResponseMessageSuccessForValid(string json, string connectionId, string[] availableTransports, string url, string accessToken)
         {
             var responseData = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(json);