diff --git a/src/components/net/fetch/request.rs b/src/components/net/fetch/request.rs
index 4c5e2d55cdf..069c30541ea 100644
--- a/src/components/net/fetch/request.rs
+++ b/src/components/net/fetch/request.rs
@@ -53,8 +53,7 @@ pub enum ResponseTainting {
     Opaque // Opaque
 }
 
-/// A Request as defined by the [Fetch spec](http://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/#requests)
-/// 
+/// A [Request](http://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/#requests) as defined by the Fetch spec
 pub struct Request {
     pub method: Method,
     pub url: Url,
@@ -82,7 +81,7 @@ pub struct Request {
 }
 
 impl Request {
-    fn new(url: Url, context: Context) -> Request {
+    pub fn new(url: Url, context: Context) -> Request {
          Request {
             method: Get,
             url: url,
diff --git a/src/components/net/fetch/response.rs b/src/components/net/fetch/response.rs
index f6b926bb725..57a44c468f6 100644
--- a/src/components/net/fetch/response.rs
+++ b/src/components/net/fetch/response.rs
@@ -2,4 +2,105 @@
  * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
  * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. */
 
- pub struct Response;
\ No newline at end of file
+use url::Url;
+use http::status::{Status, UnregisteredStatus};
+use StatusOk = http::status::Ok;
+use http::headers::HeaderEnum;
+use http::headers::response::HeaderCollection;
+use std::ascii::OwnedStrAsciiExt;
+
+// [Response type](http://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/#concept-response-type)
+#[deriving(Clone)]
+pub enum ResponseType {
+    Basic,
+    CORS,
+    Default,
+    Error,
+    Opaque
+}
+
+// [Response termination reason](http://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/#concept-response-termination-reason)
+#[deriving(Clone)]
+pub enum TerminationReason {
+    EndUserAbort,
+    Fatal,
+    Timeout
+}
+
+// A [Response](http://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/#concept-response) as defined by the Fetch spec
+#[deriving(Clone)]
+pub struct Response {
+    pub response_type: ResponseType,
+    pub termination_reason: Option<TerminationReason>,
+    pub url: Option<Url>,
+    pub status: Status,
+    pub headers: HeaderCollection,
+    pub body: Option<Vec<u8>>,
+    /// [Internal response](http://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/#concept-internal-response), only used if the Response is a filtered response
+    pub internal_response: Option<Box<Response>>, 
+}
+
+impl Response {
+    pub fn new() -> Response {
+        Response {
+            response_type: Default,
+            termination_reason: None,
+            url: None,
+            status: StatusOk,
+            headers: HeaderCollection::new(),
+            body: None,
+            internal_response: None
+        }
+    }
+
+    pub fn is_network_error(&self) -> bool {
+        match self.response_type {
+            Error => true,
+            _ => false
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// Convert to a filtered response, of type `filter_type`
+    /// Do not use with type Error or Default
+    pub fn to_filtered(self, filter_type: ResponseType) -> Response {
+        if self.is_network_error() {
+            return self;
+        }
+        let old_headers = self.headers.clone();
+        let mut response = self.clone();
+        response.internal_response = Some(box self);
+        match filter_type {
+            Default | Error => unreachable!(),
+            Basic => {
+                let mut headers = HeaderCollection::new();
+                for h in old_headers.iter() {
+                    match h.header_name().into_ascii_lower().as_slice() {
+                        "set-cookie" | "set-cookie2" => {},
+                        _ => headers.insert(h)
+                    }
+                }
+                response.headers = headers;
+                response.response_type = filter_type;
+            },
+            CORS => {
+                let mut headers = HeaderCollection::new();
+                for h in old_headers.iter() {
+                    match h.header_name().into_ascii_lower().as_slice() {
+                        "cache-control" | "content-language" |
+                        "content-type" | "expires" | "last-modified" | "Pragma" => {},
+                        // XXXManishearth handle Access-Control-Expose-Headers
+                        _ => headers.insert(h)
+                    }
+                }
+                response.headers = headers;
+                response.response_type = filter_type;
+            },
+            Opaque => {
+                response.headers = HeaderCollection::new();
+                response.status = UnregisteredStatus(0, "".to_string());
+                response.body = None;
+            }
+        }
+        response
+    }
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/components/net/net.rs b/src/components/net/net.rs
index c0eb24e1176..d528b151345 100644
--- a/src/components/net/net.rs
+++ b/src/components/net/net.rs
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ pub mod image_cache_task;
 pub mod local_image_cache;
 pub mod resource_task;
 
+/// An implementation of the [Fetch spec](http://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/)
 pub mod fetch {
     #![allow(dead_code)] // XXXManishearth this is only temporary until the Fetch mod starts being used
     pub mod request;