diff --git a/tests/auto/network/access/qnetworkreply/.gitattributes b/tests/auto/network/access/qnetworkreply/.gitattributes
index 80252cfd34..7fa30e3f99 100644
--- a/tests/auto/network/access/qnetworkreply/.gitattributes
+++ b/tests/auto/network/access/qnetworkreply/.gitattributes
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 rfc3252.txt     -crlf
 bigfile     	-crlf
 resource	-crlf
+index.html      -crlf
diff --git a/tests/auto/network/access/qnetworkreply/index.html b/tests/auto/network/access/qnetworkreply/index.html
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0ce7b5b8a5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/auto/network/access/qnetworkreply/index.html
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+<h1>Welcome to qt-test-server</h1>
+<img src="gif/fluke.gif" alt="fluke">
+<p>This is a network test server. It serves as a cacheing ftp and http proxy, transparent http/socks5 proxy, imap, ftp and http server, plus more.</p>
diff --git a/tests/auto/network/access/qnetworkreply/tst_qnetworkreply.cpp b/tests/auto/network/access/qnetworkreply/tst_qnetworkreply.cpp
index bc7ab7f24a..4d4aca6517 100644
--- a/tests/auto/network/access/qnetworkreply/tst_qnetworkreply.cpp
+++ b/tests/auto/network/access/qnetworkreply/tst_qnetworkreply.cpp
@@ -193,6 +193,8 @@ private Q_SLOTS:
     void getFromHttp();
     void getErrors_data();
     void getErrors();
+    void headFromHttp_data();
+    void headFromHttp();
     void putToFile_data();
     void putToFile();
     void putToFtp_data();
@@ -1601,6 +1603,65 @@ void tst_QNetworkReply::getFromHttp()
     QCOMPARE(reply->readAll(), reference.readAll());
 }
 
+void tst_QNetworkReply::headFromHttp_data()
+{
+    QTest::addColumn<qint64>("referenceSize");
+    QTest::addColumn<QUrl>("url");
+    QTest::addColumn<QString>("contentType");
+    QTest::addColumn<QNetworkProxy>("proxy");
+
+    qint64 rfcsize = QFileInfo(SRCDIR "/rfc3252.txt").size();
+    qint64 bigfilesize = QFileInfo(SRCDIR "/bigfile").size();
+    qint64 indexsize = QFileInfo(SRCDIR "/index.html").size();
+
+    //testing proxies, mainly for the 407 response from http proxy
+    for (int i = 0; i < proxies.count(); ++i) {
+        QTest::newRow("rfc" + proxies.at(i).tag) << rfcsize << QUrl("http://" + QtNetworkSettings::serverName() + "/qtest/rfc3252.txt") << "text/plain" << proxies.at(i).proxy;
+        QTest::newRow("bigfile" + proxies.at(i).tag) << bigfilesize << QUrl("http://" + QtNetworkSettings::serverName() + "/qtest/bigfile") << "text/plain" << proxies.at(i).proxy;
+        QTest::newRow("index" + proxies.at(i).tag) << indexsize << QUrl("http://" + QtNetworkSettings::serverName() + "/qtest/") << "text/html" << proxies.at(i).proxy;
+        QTest::newRow("with-authentication" + proxies.at(i).tag) << rfcsize << QUrl("http://" + QtNetworkSettings::serverName() + "/qtest/rfcs-auth/rfc3252.txt") << "text/plain" << proxies.at(i).proxy;
+        QTest::newRow("cgi" + proxies.at(i).tag) << (qint64)-1 << QUrl("http://qt-test-server/qtest/cgi-bin/httpcachetest_expires500.cgi") << "text/html" << proxies.at(i).proxy;
+    }
+}
+
+void tst_QNetworkReply::headFromHttp()
+{
+    QFETCH(qint64, referenceSize);
+    QFETCH(QUrl, url);
+    QFETCH(QString, contentType);
+    QFETCH(QNetworkProxy, proxy);
+
+    QNetworkRequest request(url);
+    QNetworkReplyPtr reply;
+
+    QElapsedTimer time;
+    time.start();
+
+    manager.setProxy(proxy);
+    connect(&manager, SIGNAL(authenticationRequired(QNetworkReply*,QAuthenticator*)),
+            SLOT(authenticationRequired(QNetworkReply*,QAuthenticator*)));
+    connect(&manager, SIGNAL(proxyAuthenticationRequired(QNetworkProxy,QAuthenticator*)),
+            SLOT(proxyAuthenticationRequired(QNetworkProxy,QAuthenticator*)));
+
+    RUN_REQUEST(runSimpleRequest(QNetworkAccessManager::HeadOperation, request, reply));
+
+    manager.disconnect(SIGNAL(authenticationRequired(QNetworkReply*,QAuthenticator*)),
+               this, SLOT(authenticationRequired(QNetworkReply*,QAuthenticator*)));
+    manager.disconnect(SIGNAL(proxyAuthenticationRequired(QNetworkProxy,QAuthenticator*)),
+               this, SLOT(proxyAuthenticationRequired(QNetworkProxy,QAuthenticator*)));
+
+    QVERIFY(time.elapsed() < 8000); //check authentication didn't wait for the server to timeout the http connection (15s on qt test server)
+
+    QCOMPARE(reply->url(), request.url());
+    QCOMPARE(reply->error(), QNetworkReply::NoError);
+    QCOMPARE(reply->attribute(QNetworkRequest::HttpStatusCodeAttribute).toInt(), 200);
+    // only compare when the header is set.
+    if (reply->header(QNetworkRequest::ContentLengthHeader).isValid() && referenceSize >= 0)
+        QCOMPARE(reply->header(QNetworkRequest::ContentLengthHeader).toLongLong(), referenceSize);
+    if (reply->header(QNetworkRequest::ContentTypeHeader).isValid())
+        QCOMPARE(reply->header(QNetworkRequest::ContentTypeHeader).toString(), contentType);
+}
+
 void tst_QNetworkReply::getErrors_data()
 {
     QTest::addColumn<QString>("url");