diff --git a/src/ng/http.js b/src/ng/http.js
index 738d1cd12cfc..970d80485b03 100644
--- a/src/ng/http.js
+++ b/src/ng/http.js
@@ -48,7 +48,8 @@ function headersGetter(headers) {
     if (!headersObj) headersObj =  parseHeaders(headers);
 
     if (name) {
-      return headersObj[lowercase(name)] || null;
+      name = lowercase(name);
+      return name in headersObj ? headersObj[name] : null;
     }
 
     return headersObj;
diff --git a/test/ng/httpSpec.js b/test/ng/httpSpec.js
index 1318bbc16e63..4daa0ba8c408 100644
--- a/test/ng/httpSpec.js
+++ b/test/ng/httpSpec.js
@@ -764,6 +764,16 @@ describe('$http', function() {
       });
 
 
+      it('should handle empty response header', function() {
+        $httpBackend.expect('GET', '/url', undefined)
+            .respond(200, '', { 'Custom-Empty-Response-Header': '' });
+        $http.get('/url').success(callback);
+        $httpBackend.flush();
+        expect(callback).toHaveBeenCalledOnce();
+        expect(callback.mostRecentCall.args[2]('custom-empty-response-Header')).toBe('');
+      });
+
+
       it('should have delete()', function() {
         $httpBackend.expect('DELETE', '/url').respond('');
         $http['delete']('/url');