diff --git a/scrapy_playwright/handler.py b/scrapy_playwright/handler.py
index 842feabf..f3f4b1bb 100644
--- a/scrapy_playwright/handler.py
+++ b/scrapy_playwright/handler.py
@@ -291,6 +291,15 @@ async def _download_request_with_page(self, request: Request, page: Page) -> Res
         page_goto_kwargs = request.meta.get("playwright_page_goto_kwargs") or {}
         page_goto_kwargs.pop("url", None)
         response = await page.goto(url=request.url, **page_goto_kwargs)
+        if response is None:
+            logger.warning(
+                f"Navigating to {request} returned None, the response"
+                " will have empty headers and status 200"
+            )
+            headers = Headers()
+        else:
+            headers = Headers(await response.all_headers())
+            headers.pop("Content-Encoding", None)
         await self._apply_page_methods(page, request)
         body_str = await page.content()
         request.meta["download_latency"] = time() - start_time
@@ -307,13 +316,11 @@ async def _download_request_with_page(self, request: Request, page: Page) -> Res
         with suppress(AttributeError):
             request.meta["playwright_security_details"] = await response.security_details()
 
-        headers = Headers(await response.all_headers())
-        headers.pop("Content-Encoding", None)
         body, encoding = _encode_body(headers=headers, text=body_str)
         respcls = responsetypes.from_args(headers=headers, url=page.url, body=body)
         return respcls(
             url=page.url,
-            status=response.status,
+            status=response.status if response is not None else 200,
             headers=headers,
             body=body,
             request=request,
diff --git a/tests/test_playwright_requests.py b/tests/test_playwright_requests.py
index 59cb64d5..beef4fdc 100644
--- a/tests/test_playwright_requests.py
+++ b/tests/test_playwright_requests.py
@@ -349,6 +349,22 @@ async def test_page_goto_kwargs_referer(self):
         headers = json.loads(response.css("pre::text").get())
         assert headers["Referer"] == fake_referer
 
+    @pytest.mark.asyncio
+    async def test_navigation_returns_none(self, caplog):
+        async with make_handler({"PLAYWRIGHT_BROWSER_TYPE": self.browser_type}) as handler:
+            with MockServer():
+                req = Request(url="about:blank", meta={"playwright": True})
+                response = await handler._download_request(req, Spider("spider_name"))
+
+        assert (
+            "scrapy-playwright",
+            logging.WARNING,
+            f"Navigating to {req!r} returned None, the response"
+            " will have empty headers and status 200",
+        ) in caplog.record_tuples
+        assert not response.headers
+        assert response.status == 200
+
     @pytest.mark.asyncio
     async def test_abort_requests(self):
         async def should_abort_request_async(request):