diff --git a/src/Httpful/Response.php b/src/Httpful/Response.php
index 1075405..9b49c47 100644
--- a/src/Httpful/Response.php
+++ b/src/Httpful/Response.php
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ public function __construct($body, $headers, Request $request)
         $this->raw_body     = $body;
 
         $this->code         = $this->_parseCode($headers);
-        $this->headers      = $this->_parseHeaders($headers);
+        $this->headers      = Response\Headers::fromString($headers);
 
         $this->_interpretHeaders();
 
@@ -103,23 +103,6 @@ public function _parse($body)
        return Httpful::get($parse_with)->parse($body);
     }
 
-    /**
-     * Parse text headers from response into
-     * array of key value pairs
-     * @return array parse headers
-     * @param string $headers raw headers
-     */
-    public function _parseHeaders($headers)
-    {
-        $headers = preg_split("/(\r|\n)+/", $headers, -1, \PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY);
-        $parse_headers = array();
-        for ($i = 1; $i < count($headers); $i++) {
-            list($key, $raw_value) = explode(':', $headers[$i], 2);
-            $parse_headers[trim($key)] = trim($raw_value);
-        }
-        return $parse_headers;
-    }
-
     public function _parseCode($headers)
     {
         $parts = explode(' ', substr($headers, 0, strpos($headers, "\n")));
diff --git a/src/Httpful/Response/Headers.php b/src/Httpful/Response/Headers.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c340039
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/Httpful/Response/Headers.php
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+<?php
+
+namespace Httpful\Response;
+
+final class Headers implements \ArrayAccess, \Countable {
+
+	private $headers;
+
+	private function __construct($headers)
+	{
+		$this->headers = $headers;
+	}
+
+	public static function fromString($string)
+	{
+		$lines = preg_split("/(\r|\n)+/", $string, -1, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY);
+		array_shift($lines); // HTTP HEADER
+		$headers = array();
+		foreach ($lines as $line) {
+			list($name, $value) = explode(':', $line, 2);
+			$headers[strtolower(trim($name))] = trim($value);
+		}
+		return new self($headers);
+	}
+
+	public function offsetExists($offset)
+	{
+		return isset($this->headers[strtolower($offset)]);
+	}
+
+	public function offsetGet($offset)
+	{
+		if (isset($this->headers[$name = strtolower($offset)])) {
+			return $this->headers[$name];
+		}
+	}
+
+	public function offsetSet($offset, $value)
+	{
+		throw new \Exception("Headers are read-only.");
+	}
+
+	public function offsetUnset($offset)
+	{
+		throw new \Exception("Headers are read-only.");
+	}
+
+	public function count()
+	{
+		return count($this->headers);
+	}
+
+	public function toArray()
+	{
+		return $this->headers;
+	}
+
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/tests/Httpful/HttpfulTest.php b/tests/Httpful/HttpfulTest.php
index 98231af..ae84ac7 100644
--- a/tests/Httpful/HttpfulTest.php
+++ b/tests/Httpful/HttpfulTest.php
@@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ function testParsingContentTypeCharset()
         // // Check default content type of iso-8859-1
         $response = new Response(self::SAMPLE_JSON_RESPONSE, "HTTP/1.1 200 OK
 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8\r\n", $req);
-        $this->assertInternalType('array', $response->headers);
+        $this->assertInstanceOf('Httpful\Response\Headers', $response->headers);
         $this->assertEquals($response->headers['Content-Type'], 'text/plain; charset=utf-8');
         $this->assertEquals($response->content_type, 'text/plain');
         $this->assertEquals($response->charset, 'utf-8');
@@ -330,12 +330,10 @@ function testToString()
 
     function test_parseHeaders()
     {
-        $req = Request::init();
-        $response = new Response(self::SAMPLE_JSON_RESPONSE, self::SAMPLE_JSON_HEADER, $req);
-        $parse_headers = $response->_parseHeaders(self::SAMPLE_JSON_HEADER);
-        $this->assertEquals(3, count($parse_headers));
+        $parse_headers = Response\Headers::fromString(self::SAMPLE_JSON_HEADER);
+        $this->assertCount(3, $parse_headers);
         $this->assertEquals('application/json', $parse_headers['Content-Type']);
-        $this->assertArrayHasKey('Connection', $parse_headers);
+        $this->assertTrue(isset($parse_headers['Connection']));
     }
 
     function testDetectContentType()