diff --git a/components/script/dom/htmllinkelement.rs b/components/script/dom/htmllinkelement.rs
index 7b0e4e95eef..e2b2dc0edb0 100644
--- a/components/script/dom/htmllinkelement.rs
+++ b/components/script/dom/htmllinkelement.rs
@@ -15,11 +15,14 @@ use dom::bindings::refcounted::Trusted;
 use dom::document::Document;
 use dom::domtokenlist::DOMTokenList;
 use dom::element::{AttributeMutation, Element, ElementCreator};
+use dom::eventtarget::EventTarget;
 use dom::htmlelement::HTMLElement;
 use dom::node::{Node, document_from_node, window_from_node};
 use dom::virtualmethods::VirtualMethods;
 use encoding::EncodingRef;
 use encoding::all::UTF_8;
+use hyper::header::ContentType;
+use hyper::mime::{Mime, TopLevel, SubLevel};
 use ipc_channel::ipc;
 use ipc_channel::router::ROUTER;
 use layout_interface::{LayoutChan, Msg};
@@ -272,6 +275,12 @@ impl PreInvoke for StylesheetContext {}
 impl AsyncResponseListener for StylesheetContext {
     fn headers_available(&mut self, metadata: Result<Metadata, NetworkError>) {
         self.metadata = metadata.ok();
+        if let Some(ref meta) = self.metadata {
+            if let Some(ContentType(Mime(TopLevel::Text, SubLevel::Css, _))) = meta.content_type {
+            } else {
+                self.elem.root().upcast::<EventTarget>().fire_simple_event("error");
+            }
+        }
     }
 
     fn data_available(&mut self, payload: Vec<u8>) {
@@ -279,7 +288,11 @@ impl AsyncResponseListener for StylesheetContext {
         self.data.append(&mut payload);
     }
 
-    fn response_complete(&mut self, _status: Result<(), NetworkError>) {
+    fn response_complete(&mut self, status: Result<(), NetworkError>) {
+        if status.is_err() {
+            self.elem.root().upcast::<EventTarget>().fire_simple_event("error");
+            return;
+        }
         let data = mem::replace(&mut self.data, vec!());
         let metadata = match self.metadata.take() {
             Some(meta) => meta,
diff --git a/tests/wpt/metadata/html/semantics/document-metadata/the-link-element/link-style-error-01.html.ini b/tests/wpt/metadata/html/semantics/document-metadata/the-link-element/link-style-error-01.html.ini
deleted file mode 100644
index 1ab57decdcb..00000000000
--- a/tests/wpt/metadata/html/semantics/document-metadata/the-link-element/link-style-error-01.html.ini
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-[link-style-error-01.html]
-  type: testharness
-  expected: TIMEOUT
-  [Should get an error event for a text/plain response.]
-    expected: TIMEOUT
-