diff --git a/Lib/test/test_urllib2.py b/Lib/test/test_urllib2.py
index 2d94ba449f3..ccd5419b709 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_urllib2.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_urllib2.py
@@ -1495,18 +1495,34 @@ class RequestTests(unittest.TestCase):
         req = Request(url)
         self.assertEqual(req.get_full_url(), url)
 
-def test_HTTPError_interface():
-    """
-    Issue 13211 reveals that HTTPError didn't implement the URLError
-    interface even though HTTPError is a subclass of URLError.
+    def test_HTTPError_interface(self):
+        """
+        Issue 13211 reveals that HTTPError didn't implement the URLError
+        interface even though HTTPError is a subclass of URLError.
 
-    >>> msg = 'something bad happened'
-    >>> url = code = hdrs = fp = None
-    >>> err = urllib.error.HTTPError(url, code, msg, hdrs, fp)
-    >>> assert hasattr(err, 'reason')
-    >>> err.reason
-    'something bad happened'
-    """
+        >>> msg = 'something bad happened'
+        >>> url = code = hdrs = fp = None
+        >>> err = urllib.error.HTTPError(url, code, msg, hdrs, fp)
+        >>> assert hasattr(err, 'reason')
+        >>> err.reason
+        'something bad happened'
+        """
+
+    def test_HTTPError_interface_call(self):
+        """
+        Issue 15701 - HTTPError interface has info method available from URLError
+        """
+        err = urllib.request.HTTPError(msg="something bad happened", url=None,
+                                code=None, hdrs='Content-Length:42', fp=None)
+        self.assertTrue(hasattr(err, 'reason'))
+        assert hasattr(err, 'reason')
+        assert hasattr(err, 'info')
+        assert callable(err.info)
+        try:
+            err.info()
+        except AttributeError:
+            self.fail('err.info call failed.')
+        self.assertEqual(err.info(), "Content-Length:42")
 
 def test_main(verbose=None):
     from test import test_urllib2
diff --git a/Lib/urllib/error.py b/Lib/urllib/error.py
index c1dfc40ed7d..b712ebb5cb3 100644
--- a/Lib/urllib/error.py
+++ b/Lib/urllib/error.py
@@ -61,6 +61,10 @@ class HTTPError(URLError, urllib.response.addinfourl):
     def reason(self):
         return self.msg
 
+    def info(self):
+        return self.hdrs
+
+
 # exception raised when downloaded size does not match content-length
 class ContentTooShortError(URLError):
     def __init__(self, message, content):
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 97e24fa1db9..31b33561818 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -114,6 +114,8 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #15701: Fix HTTPError info method call to return the headers information.
+
 - Issue #16752: Add a missing import to modulefinder. Patch by Berker Peksag.
 
 - Issue #16646: ftplib.FTP.makeport() might lose socket error details.