2 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_urllib2.py b/Lib/test/test_urllib2.py
index 2261d57..33042ed 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_urllib2.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_urllib2.py
@@ -1539,11 +1539,15 @@ def test_HTTPError_interface():
     interface even though HTTPError is a subclass of URLError.
 
     >>> msg = 'something bad happened'
-    >>> url = code = hdrs = fp = None
+    >>> url = code = fp = None
+    >>> hdrs = 'Content-Length: 42'
     >>> err = urllib.error.HTTPError(url, code, msg, hdrs, fp)
     >>> assert hasattr(err, 'reason')
     >>> err.reason
     'something bad happened'
+    >>> assert hasattr(err, 'headers')
+    >>> err.headers
+    'Content-Length: 42'
     """
 
 def test_main(verbose=None):
diff --git a/Lib/urllib/error.py b/Lib/urllib/error.py
index c1dfc40..237ed6b 100644
--- a/Lib/urllib/error.py
+++ b/Lib/urllib/error.py
@@ -61,6 +61,14 @@ class HTTPError(URLError, urllib.response.addinfourl):
     def reason(self):
         return self.msg
 
+    @property
+    def headers(self):
+        return self.hdrs
+
+    @headers.setter
+    def headers(self, headers):
+        self.hdrs = headers
+
 # exception raised when downloaded size does not match content-length
 class ContentTooShortError(URLError):
     def __init__(self, message, content):