Raising error in HTTP11Response if created with illegal attributes

hyper/http11/response.py

@@ -58,11 +58,14 @@ def __init__(self, code, reason, headers, sock, connection=None):
             b'chunked' in self.headers.get(b'transfer-encoding', [])
         )
 
-        # One of the following must be true: we must expect that the connection
-        # will be closed following the body, or that a content-length was sent,
-        # or that we're getting a chunked response.
-        # FIXME: Remove naked assert, replace with something better.
-        assert self._expect_close or self._length is not None or self._chunked
+        if not self._expect_close \
+                and not self._chunked \
+                and self._length is None:
+            raise ValueError('A response must either specify a '
+                             'content-length, be a chunked '
+                             'response, or specify that the '
+                             'connection be closed after the response. '
+                             'None of these conditions were met.')
 
         # This object is used for decompressing gzipped request bodies. Right
         # now we only support gzip because that's all the RFC mandates of us.

test/test_http11.py

@@ -837,6 +837,18 @@ def test_closing_chunked_reads_dont_call_close_callback(self):
         assert r._sock is None
         assert connection.close.call_count == 1
 
+    def test_regular_response_with_missing_headers_raises_error(self):
+        headers = {}
+        sock = DummySocket()
+        connection = mock.MagicMock()
+
+        with pytest.raises(ValueError) as exc_info:
+            HTTP11Response(200, 'OK', headers, sock, connection)
+        assert 'A response must either specify a content-length, ' \
+               'be a chunked response, or specify that the ' \
+               'connection be closed after the response. ' \
+               in str(exc_info)
+
 
 class DummySocket(object):
     def __init__(self):