diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/HttpFoundation/Request.php b/src/Symfony/Component/HttpFoundation/Request.php
index 950bffd2a5b5..25d134953db6 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/HttpFoundation/Request.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/HttpFoundation/Request.php
@@ -165,6 +165,7 @@ static public function create($uri, $method = 'GET', $parameters = array(), $coo
             'REMOTE_ADDR'          => '127.0.0.1',
             'SCRIPT_NAME'          => '',
             'SCRIPT_FILENAME'      => '',
+            'SERVER_PROTOCOL'      => 'HTTP/1.1',
         );
 
         $components = parse_url($uri);
@@ -280,6 +281,32 @@ public function __clone()
         $this->headers    = clone $this->headers;
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Returns the request as a string.
+     *
+     * @return string The request
+     */
+    public function __toString()
+    {
+        // status
+        $content = sprintf('%s %s %s', $this->getMethod(), $this->getRequestUri(), $this->server->get('SERVER_PROTOCOL'))."\r\n";
+
+        $beautifier = function ($name) {
+            return preg_replace('/\-(.)/e', "'-'.strtoupper('\\1')", ucfirst($name));
+        };
+
+        // headers
+        foreach ($this->headers->all() as $name => $values) {
+            foreach ($values as $value) {
+                $content .= sprintf("%s: %s\r\n", $beautifier($name), $value);
+            }
+        }
+
+        $content .= "\r\n".$this->getContent();
+
+        return $content;
+    }
+
     /**
      * Overrides the PHP global variables according to this request instance.
      *
diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/HttpFoundation/Response.php b/src/Symfony/Component/HttpFoundation/Response.php
index 964c313a95e9..b5b7ce7a9791 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/HttpFoundation/Response.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/HttpFoundation/Response.php
@@ -96,17 +96,19 @@ public function __construct($content = '', $status = 200, $headers = array())
      */
     public function __toString()
     {
-        $content = '';
-
         $this->fixContentType();
 
         // status
-        $content .= sprintf('HTTP/%s %s %s', $this->version, $this->statusCode, $this->statusText)."\r\n";
+        $content = sprintf('HTTP/%s %s %s', $this->version, $this->statusCode, $this->statusText)."\r\n";
+
+        $beautifier = function ($name) {
+            return preg_replace('/\-(.)/e', "'-'.strtoupper('\\1')", ucfirst($name));
+        };
 
         // headers
         foreach ($this->headers->all() as $name => $values) {
             foreach ($values as $value) {
-                $content .= "$name: $value\r\n";
+                $content .= sprintf("%s: %s\r\n", $beautifier($name), $value);
             }
         }