diff --git a/tests/spiders.py b/tests/spiders.py
index ebe81a1a9..05078cc04 100644
--- a/tests/spiders.py
+++ b/tests/spiders.py
@@ -293,10 +293,12 @@ class BytesReceivedCallbackSpider(MetaSpider):
         self.meta["failure"] = failure
 
     def bytes_received(self, data, request, spider):
+        self.meta["bytes_received"] = data
         raise StopDownload(fail=False)
 
 
 class BytesReceivedErrbackSpider(BytesReceivedCallbackSpider):
 
     def bytes_received(self, data, request, spider):
+        self.meta["bytes_received"] = data
         raise StopDownload(fail=True)
diff --git a/tests/test_crawl.py b/tests/test_crawl.py
index 5e70064c2..e2426e0da 100644
--- a/tests/test_crawl.py
+++ b/tests/test_crawl.py
@@ -478,7 +478,8 @@ with multiples lines
         yield crawler.crawl(mockserver=self.mockserver)
         self.assertIsNone(crawler.spider.meta.get("failure"))
         self.assertIsInstance(crawler.spider.meta["response"], Response)
-        self.assertLess(len(crawler.spider.meta["response"].text), crawler.spider.full_response_length)
+        self.assertEqual(crawler.spider.meta["response"].body, crawler.spider.meta.get("bytes_received"))
+        self.assertLess(len(crawler.spider.meta["response"].body), crawler.spider.full_response_length)
 
     @defer.inlineCallbacks
     def test_stop_download_errback(self):
@@ -488,4 +489,5 @@ with multiples lines
         self.assertIsInstance(crawler.spider.meta["failure"], Failure)
         self.assertIsInstance(crawler.spider.meta["failure"].value, StopDownload)
         self.assertIsInstance(crawler.spider.meta["failure"].response, Response)
-        self.assertLess(len(crawler.spider.meta["failure"].response.text), crawler.spider.full_response_length)
+        self.assertEqual(crawler.spider.meta["failure"].response.body, crawler.spider.meta.get("bytes_received"))
+        self.assertLess(len(crawler.spider.meta["failure"].response.body), crawler.spider.full_response_length)