diff --git a/src/net/http/clientserver_test.go b/src/net/http/clientserver_test.go
index fdc47db60a8..c2bab378e3a 100644
--- a/src/net/http/clientserver_test.go
+++ b/src/net/http/clientserver_test.go
@@ -1102,6 +1102,27 @@ func testTransportRejectsInvalidHeaders(t *testing.T, h2 bool) {
 	}
 }
 
+// Tests that we support bogus under-100 HTTP statuses, because we historically
+// have. This might change at some point, but not yet in Go 1.6.
+func TestBogusStatusWorks_h1(t *testing.T) { testBogusStatusWorks(t, h1Mode) }
+func TestBogusStatusWorks_h2(t *testing.T) { testBogusStatusWorks(t, h2Mode) }
+func testBogusStatusWorks(t *testing.T, h2 bool) {
+	defer afterTest(t)
+	const code = 7
+	cst := newClientServerTest(t, h2, HandlerFunc(func(w ResponseWriter, r *Request) {
+		w.WriteHeader(code)
+	}))
+	defer cst.close()
+
+	res, err := cst.c.Get(cst.ts.URL)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if res.StatusCode != code {
+		t.Errorf("StatusCode = %d; want %d", res.StatusCode, code)
+	}
+}
+
 type noteCloseConn struct {
 	net.Conn
 	closeFunc func()
diff --git a/src/net/http/response.go b/src/net/http/response.go
index a596d1d3426..b49b77d8b9c 100644
--- a/src/net/http/response.go
+++ b/src/net/http/response.go
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ import (
 	"bytes"
 	"crypto/tls"
 	"errors"
+	"fmt"
 	"io"
 	"net/textproto"
 	"net/url"
@@ -228,11 +229,13 @@ func (r *Response) Write(w io.Writer) error {
 		if !ok {
 			text = "status code " + strconv.Itoa(r.StatusCode)
 		}
+	} else {
+		// Just to reduce stutter, if user set r.Status to "200 OK" and StatusCode to 200.
+		// Not important.
+		text = strings.TrimPrefix(text, strconv.Itoa(r.StatusCode)+" ")
 	}
-	protoMajor, protoMinor := strconv.Itoa(r.ProtoMajor), strconv.Itoa(r.ProtoMinor)
-	statusCode := strconv.Itoa(r.StatusCode) + " "
-	text = strings.TrimPrefix(text, statusCode)
-	if _, err := io.WriteString(w, "HTTP/"+protoMajor+"."+protoMinor+" "+statusCode+text+"\r\n"); err != nil {
+
+	if _, err := fmt.Fprintf(w, "HTTP/%d.%d %03d %s\r\n", r.ProtoMajor, r.ProtoMinor, r.StatusCode, text); err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
 
diff --git a/src/net/http/responsewrite_test.go b/src/net/http/responsewrite_test.go
index a2a32d01075..90f6767d96b 100644
--- a/src/net/http/responsewrite_test.go
+++ b/src/net/http/responsewrite_test.go
@@ -222,6 +222,39 @@ func TestResponseWrite(t *testing.T) {
 			},
 			"HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\nConnection: close\r\n\r\nabcdef",
 		},
+
+		// Status code under 100 should be zero-padded to
+		// three digits.  Still bogus, but less bogus. (be
+		// consistent with generating three digits, since the
+		// Transport requires it)
+		{
+			Response{
+				StatusCode: 7,
+				Status:     "license to violate specs",
+				ProtoMajor: 1,
+				ProtoMinor: 0,
+				Request:    dummyReq("GET"),
+				Header:     Header{},
+				Body:       nil,
+			},
+
+			"HTTP/1.0 007 license to violate specs\r\nContent-Length: 0\r\n\r\n",
+		},
+
+		// No stutter.
+		{
+			Response{
+				StatusCode: 123,
+				Status:     "123 Sesame Street",
+				ProtoMajor: 1,
+				ProtoMinor: 0,
+				Request:    dummyReq("GET"),
+				Header:     Header{},
+				Body:       nil,
+			},
+
+			"HTTP/1.0 123 Sesame Street\r\nContent-Length: 0\r\n\r\n",
+		},
 	}
 
 	for i := range respWriteTests {
diff --git a/src/net/http/server.go b/src/net/http/server.go
index a2f9083a511..a2ef0ddf20b 100644
--- a/src/net/http/server.go
+++ b/src/net/http/server.go
@@ -1152,7 +1152,7 @@ func statusLine(req *Request, code int) string {
 	if proto11 {
 		proto = "HTTP/1.1"
 	}
-	codestring := strconv.Itoa(code)
+	codestring := fmt.Sprintf("%03d", code)
 	text, ok := statusText[code]
 	if !ok {
 		text = "status code " + codestring