diff --git a/tests/unit/test_response.py b/tests/unit/test_response.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4ba6dcc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/unit/test_response.py
@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+# coding: UTF-8
+from vcr.stubs import VCRHTTPResponse
+
+
+def test_response_should_have_headers_field():
+    recorded_response = {
+        "status": {
+            "message": "OK",
+            "code": 200
+        },
+        "headers": {
+            "content-length": ["0"],
+            "server": ["gunicorn/18.0"],
+            "connection": ["Close"],
+            "access-control-allow-credentials": ["true"],
+            "date": ["Fri, 24 Oct 2014 18:35:37 GMT"],
+            "access-control-allow-origin": ["*"],
+            "content-type": ["text/html; charset=utf-8"],
+        },
+        "body": {
+            "string": b""
+        }
+    }
+    response = VCRHTTPResponse(recorded_response)
+
+    assert response.headers is not None
+
+
+def test_response_headers_should_be_equal_to_msg():
+    recorded_response = {
+        "status": {
+            "message": b"OK",
+            "code": 200
+        },
+        "headers": {
+            "content-length": ["0"],
+            "server": ["gunicorn/18.0"],
+            "connection": ["Close"],
+            "content-type": ["text/html; charset=utf-8"],
+        },
+        "body": {
+            "string": b""
+        }
+    }
+    response = VCRHTTPResponse(recorded_response)
+
+    assert response.headers == response.msg
+
+
+def test_response_headers_should_have_correct_values():
+    recorded_response = {
+        "status": {
+            "message": "OK",
+            "code": 200
+        },
+        "headers": {
+            "content-length": ["10806"],
+            "date": ["Fri, 24 Oct 2014 18:35:37 GMT"],
+            "content-type": ["text/html; charset=utf-8"],
+        },
+        "body": {
+            "string": b""
+        }
+    }
+    response = VCRHTTPResponse(recorded_response)
+
+    assert response.headers.get('content-length') == "10806"
+    assert response.headers.get('date') == "Fri, 24 Oct 2014 18:35:37 GMT"
diff --git a/vcr/stubs/__init__.py b/vcr/stubs/__init__.py
index 4e534f4..8dd40d3 100644
--- a/vcr/stubs/__init__.py
+++ b/vcr/stubs/__init__.py
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ class VCRHTTPResponse(HTTPResponse):
         self._closed = False
 
         headers = self.recorded_response['headers']
-        self.msg = parse_headers(headers)
+        self.headers = self.msg = parse_headers(headers)
 
         self.length = compat.get_header(self.msg, 'content-length') or None