Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master' into regex_field

Conflicts:
	docs/topics/release-notes.md

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/rest_framework/response.py b/rest_framework/response.py
index 0de01204..be78c43a 100644
--- a/rest_framework/response.py
+++ b/rest_framework/response.py
@@ -15,14 +15,17 @@ class Response(SimpleTemplateResponse):
         Alters the init arguments slightly.
         For example, drop 'template_name', and instead use 'data'.
 
-        Setting 'renderer' and 'media_type' will typically be defered,
+        Setting 'renderer' and 'media_type' will typically be deferred,
         For example being set automatically by the `APIView`.
         """
         super(Response, self).__init__(None, status=status)
         self.data = data
-        self.headers = headers and headers[:] or []
         self.template_name = template_name
         self.exception = exception
+        
+        if headers:
+            for name,value in headers.iteritems():
+                self[name] = value
 
     @property
     def rendered_content(self):