diff --git a/Sources/AsyncHTTPClient/FileDownloadDelegate.swift b/Sources/AsyncHTTPClient/FileDownloadDelegate.swift
index b21499843..16a5e5251 100644
--- a/Sources/AsyncHTTPClient/FileDownloadDelegate.swift
+++ b/Sources/AsyncHTTPClient/FileDownloadDelegate.swift
@@ -19,13 +19,34 @@ import NIOPosix
 /// Handles a streaming download to a given file path, allowing headers and progress to be reported.
 public final class FileDownloadDelegate: HTTPClientResponseDelegate {
     /// The response type for this delegate: the total count of bytes as reported by the response
-    /// "Content-Length" header (if available) and the count of bytes downloaded.
+    /// "Content-Length" header (if available), the count of bytes downloaded, and the
+    /// response head.
     public struct Progress: Sendable {
         public var totalBytes: Int?
         public var receivedBytes: Int
+
+        public var head: HTTPResponseHead {
+            get {
+                assert(self._head != nil)
+                return self._head!
+            }
+            set {
+                self._head = newValue
+            }
+        }
+
+        fileprivate var _head: HTTPResponseHead? = nil
+
+        internal init(totalBytes: Int? = nil, receivedBytes: Int) {
+            self.totalBytes = totalBytes
+            self.receivedBytes = receivedBytes
+        }
     }
 
-    private var progress = Progress(totalBytes: nil, receivedBytes: 0)
+    private var progress = Progress(
+        totalBytes: nil,
+        receivedBytes: 0
+    )
 
     public typealias Response = Progress
 
@@ -133,6 +154,8 @@ public final class FileDownloadDelegate: HTTPClientResponseDelegate {
         task: HTTPClient.Task<Response>,
         _ head: HTTPResponseHead
     ) -> EventLoopFuture<Void> {
+        self.progress._head = head
+
         self.reportHead?(task, head)
 
         if let totalBytesString = head.headers.first(name: "Content-Length"),
diff --git a/Tests/AsyncHTTPClientTests/HTTPClientTests.swift b/Tests/AsyncHTTPClientTests/HTTPClientTests.swift
index 93c057e36..a3c497761 100644
--- a/Tests/AsyncHTTPClientTests/HTTPClientTests.swift
+++ b/Tests/AsyncHTTPClientTests/HTTPClientTests.swift
@@ -729,11 +729,11 @@ final class HTTPClientTests: XCTestCaseHTTPClientTestsBaseClass {
         var request = try Request(url: self.defaultHTTPBinURLPrefix + "events/10/content-length")
         request.headers.add(name: "Accept", value: "text/event-stream")
 
-        let progress =
-            try TemporaryFileHelpers.withTemporaryFilePath { path -> FileDownloadDelegate.Progress in
+        let response =
+            try TemporaryFileHelpers.withTemporaryFilePath { path -> FileDownloadDelegate.Response in
                 let delegate = try FileDownloadDelegate(path: path)
 
-                let progress = try self.defaultClient.execute(
+                let response = try self.defaultClient.execute(
                     request: request,
                     delegate: delegate
                 )
@@ -741,19 +741,22 @@ final class HTTPClientTests: XCTestCaseHTTPClientTestsBaseClass {
 
                 try XCTAssertEqual(50, TemporaryFileHelpers.fileSize(path: path))
 
-                return progress
+                return response
             }
 
-        XCTAssertEqual(50, progress.totalBytes)
-        XCTAssertEqual(50, progress.receivedBytes)
+        XCTAssertEqual(.ok, response.head.status)
+        XCTAssertEqual("50", response.head.headers.first(name: "content-length"))
+
+        XCTAssertEqual(50, response.totalBytes)
+        XCTAssertEqual(50, response.receivedBytes)
     }
 
     func testFileDownloadError() throws {
         var request = try Request(url: self.defaultHTTPBinURLPrefix + "not-found")
         request.headers.add(name: "Accept", value: "text/event-stream")
 
-        let progress =
-            try TemporaryFileHelpers.withTemporaryFilePath { path -> FileDownloadDelegate.Progress in
+        let response =
+            try TemporaryFileHelpers.withTemporaryFilePath { path -> FileDownloadDelegate.Response in
                 let delegate = try FileDownloadDelegate(
                     path: path,
                     reportHead: {
@@ -761,7 +764,7 @@ final class HTTPClientTests: XCTestCaseHTTPClientTestsBaseClass {
                     }
                 )
 
-                let progress = try self.defaultClient.execute(
+                let response = try self.defaultClient.execute(
                     request: request,
                     delegate: delegate
                 )
@@ -769,11 +772,14 @@ final class HTTPClientTests: XCTestCaseHTTPClientTestsBaseClass {
 
                 XCTAssertFalse(TemporaryFileHelpers.fileExists(path: path))
 
-                return progress
+                return response
             }
 
-        XCTAssertEqual(nil, progress.totalBytes)
-        XCTAssertEqual(0, progress.receivedBytes)
+        XCTAssertEqual(.notFound, response.head.status)
+        XCTAssertFalse(response.head.headers.contains(name: "content-length"))
+
+        XCTAssertEqual(nil, response.totalBytes)
+        XCTAssertEqual(0, response.receivedBytes)
     }
 
     func testFileDownloadCustomError() throws {
@@ -3910,11 +3916,11 @@ final class HTTPClientTests: XCTestCaseHTTPClientTestsBaseClass {
         var request = try Request(url: self.defaultHTTPBinURLPrefix + "chunked")
         request.headers.add(name: "Accept", value: "text/event-stream")
 
-        let progress =
-            try TemporaryFileHelpers.withTemporaryFilePath { path -> FileDownloadDelegate.Progress in
+        let response =
+            try TemporaryFileHelpers.withTemporaryFilePath { path -> FileDownloadDelegate.Response in
                 let delegate = try FileDownloadDelegate(path: path)
 
-                let progress = try self.defaultClient.execute(
+                let response = try self.defaultClient.execute(
                     request: request,
                     delegate: delegate
                 )
@@ -3922,11 +3928,15 @@ final class HTTPClientTests: XCTestCaseHTTPClientTestsBaseClass {
 
                 try XCTAssertEqual(50, TemporaryFileHelpers.fileSize(path: path))
 
-                return progress
+                return response
             }
 
-        XCTAssertEqual(nil, progress.totalBytes)
-        XCTAssertEqual(50, progress.receivedBytes)
+        XCTAssertEqual(.ok, response.head.status)
+        XCTAssertEqual("chunked", response.head.headers.first(name: "transfer-encoding"))
+        XCTAssertFalse(response.head.headers.contains(name: "content-length"))
+
+        XCTAssertEqual(nil, response.totalBytes)
+        XCTAssertEqual(50, response.receivedBytes)
     }
 
     func testCloseWhileBackpressureIsExertedIsFine() throws {