Index: tests/Zend/Rest/responses/returnEmptyStatus.xml
===================================================================
--- tests/Zend/Rest/responses/returnEmptyStatus.xml	(revision 0)
+++ tests/Zend/Rest/responses/returnEmptyStatus.xml	(revision 0)
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<statuses type="array">
+</statuses>
\ No newline at end of file
Index: tests/Zend/Rest/ClientTest.php
===================================================================
--- tests/Zend/Rest/ClientTest.php	(revision 23882)
+++ tests/Zend/Rest/ClientTest.php	(working copy)
@@ -297,4 +297,27 @@
 
         }
     }
+    
+    /**
+     * @group ZF-11281
+     */
+    public function testCallStatusGetterOnResponseObjectWhenServerResponseHasNoStatusXmlElement()
+    {
+        $expXml   = file_get_contents($this->path . 'returnEmptyStatus.xml');
+        $response = "HTTP/1.0 200 OK\r\n"
+                  . "X-powered-by: PHP/5.2.0\r\n"
+                  . "Content-type: text/xml\r\n"
+                  . "Content-length: " . strlen($expXml) . "\r\n"
+                  . "Server: Apache/1.3.34 (Unix) PHP/5.2.0)\r\n"
+                  . "Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 15:01:47 GMT\r\n"
+                  . "Connection: close\r\n"
+                  . "\r\n"
+                  . $expXml;
+        $this->adapter->setResponse($response);
+
+        $response = $this->rest->get('/rest/');
+        $this->assertTrue($response instanceof Zend_Rest_Client_Result);
+        $this->assertFalse($response->getStatus());
+    }
+
 }
Index: library/Zend/Rest/Client/Result.php
===================================================================
--- library/Zend/Rest/Client/Result.php	(revision 23882)
+++ library/Zend/Rest/Client/Result.php	(working copy)
@@ -180,7 +180,8 @@
     public function getStatus()
     {
         $status = $this->_sxml->xpath('//status/text()');
-
+        if ( !isset($status[0]) ) return false;
+        
         $status = strtolower($status[0]);
 
         if (ctype_alpha($status) && $status == 'success') {