diff --git a/Lib/test/test_urllib.py b/Lib/test/test_urllib.py
index 8895421..9a6b5f6 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_urllib.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_urllib.py
@@ -194,6 +194,15 @@
         # by the tearDown() method for the test
         self.returned_obj.close()
 
+    def test_headers(self):
+        self.assertIsInstance(self.returned_obj.headers, email.message.Message)
+
+    def test_url(self):
+        self.assertEqual(self.returned_obj.url, self.pathname)
+
+    def test_status(self):
+        self.assertIsNone(self.returned_obj.status)
+
     def test_info(self):
         self.assertIsInstance(self.returned_obj.info(), email.message.Message)
 
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_urllib_response.py b/Lib/test/test_urllib_response.py
index 0eb5942..73d2ef0 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_urllib_response.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_urllib_response.py
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@
     def test_addinfo(self):
         info = urllib.response.addinfo(self.fp, self.test_headers)
         self.assertEqual(info.info(), self.test_headers)
+        self.assertEqual(info.headers, self.test_headers)
 
     def test_addinfourl(self):
         url = "http://www.python.org"
@@ -51,6 +52,9 @@
         self.assertEqual(infourl.info(), self.test_headers)
         self.assertEqual(infourl.geturl(), url)
         self.assertEqual(infourl.getcode(), code)
+        self.assertEqual(infourl.headers, self.test_headers)
+        self.assertEqual(infourl.url, url)
+        self.assertEqual(infourl.status, code)
 
     def tearDown(self):
         self.sock.close()
diff --git a/Lib/urllib/request.py b/Lib/urllib/request.py
index f6ce9cb..267a90d 100644
--- a/Lib/urllib/request.py
+++ b/Lib/urllib/request.py
@@ -163,18 +163,10 @@
 
     The *cadefault* parameter is ignored.
 
-    This function always returns an object which can work as a context
-    manager and has methods such as
 
-    * geturl() - return the URL of the resource retrieved, commonly used to
-      determine if a redirect was followed
-
-    * info() - return the meta-information of the page, such as headers, in the
-      form of an email.message_from_string() instance (see Quick Reference to
-      HTTP Headers)
-
-    * getcode() - return the HTTP status code of the response.  Raises URLError
-      on errors.
+    This function always returns an object which can work as a
+    context manager and has the properties url, headers, and status.
+    See urllib.response.addinfourl for more detail on these properties.
 
     For HTTP and HTTPS URLs, this function returns a http.client.HTTPResponse
     object slightly modified. In addition to the three new methods above, the
diff --git a/Lib/urllib/response.py b/Lib/urllib/response.py
index 4778118..5a2c3cc 100644
--- a/Lib/urllib/response.py
+++ b/Lib/urllib/response.py
@@ -73,6 +73,10 @@
         self.url = url
         self.code = code
 
+    @property
+    def status(self):
+        return self.code
+
     def getcode(self):
         return self.code