diff --git a/src/error.rs b/src/error.rs
index 663156e0a9..6912cd3a70 100644
--- a/src/error.rs
+++ b/src/error.rs
@@ -132,6 +132,17 @@ impl Error {
         matches!(self.inner.kind, Kind::Parse(_))
     }
 
+    /// Returns true if this was an HTTP parse error caused by a message that was too large.
+    pub fn is_parse_too_large(&self) -> bool {
+        matches!(self.inner.kind, Kind::Parse(Parse::TooLarge))
+    }
+
+    /// Returns true if this was an HTTP parse error caused by an invalid response status code or
+    /// reason phrase.
+    pub fn is_parse_status(&self) -> bool {
+        matches!(self.inner.kind, Kind::Parse(Parse::Status))
+    }
+
     /// Returns true if this error was caused by user code.
     pub fn is_user(&self) -> bool {
         matches!(self.inner.kind, Kind::User(_))
diff --git a/tests/client.rs b/tests/client.rs
index d22f8cf2ca..52747a30c6 100644
--- a/tests/client.rs
+++ b/tests/client.rs
@@ -907,6 +907,83 @@ test! {
 
 }
 
+test! {
+    name: client_error_parse_too_large,
+
+    server:
+        expected: "\
+            GET /err HTTP/1.1\r\n\
+            host: {addr}\r\n\
+            \r\n\
+            ",
+        reply: {
+            let long_header = std::iter::repeat("A").take(500_000).collect::<String>();
+            format!("\
+                HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\n\
+                {}: {}\r\n\
+                \r\n\
+                ",
+                long_header,
+                long_header,
+            )
+        },
+
+    client:
+        request: {
+            method: GET,
+            url: "http://{addr}/err",
+        },
+        // should get a Parse(TooLarge) error
+        error: |err| err.is_parse() && err.is_parse_too_large(),
+
+}
+
+test! {
+    name: client_error_parse_status_out_of_range,
+
+    server:
+        expected: "\
+            GET /err HTTP/1.1\r\n\
+            host: {addr}\r\n\
+            \r\n\
+            ",
+        reply: "\
+            HTTP/1.1 001 OK\r\n\
+            \r\n\
+            ",
+
+    client:
+        request: {
+            method: GET,
+            url: "http://{addr}/err",
+        },
+        // should get a Parse(Status) error
+        error: |err| err.is_parse() && err.is_parse_status(),
+}
+
+test! {
+    name: client_error_parse_status_syntactically_invalid,
+
+    server:
+        expected: "\
+            GET /err HTTP/1.1\r\n\
+            host: {addr}\r\n\
+            \r\n\
+            ",
+        reply: "\
+            HTTP/1.1 1 OK\r\n\
+            \r\n\
+            ",
+
+    client:
+        request: {
+            method: GET,
+            url: "http://{addr}/err",
+        },
+        // should get a Parse(Status) error
+        error: |err| err.is_parse() && err.is_parse_status(),
+}
+
 test! {
     name: client_100_continue,