diff --git a/tests/mockserver.py b/tests/mockserver.py
index 35ff02a0..6487a80e 100644
--- a/tests/mockserver.py
+++ b/tests/mockserver.py
@@ -59,6 +59,9 @@ def do_GET(self) -> None:
 
         if parsed_path.path == "/headers":
             self._send_json(dict(self.headers))
+        elif parsed_path.path == "/status/204":
+            self.send_response(204)
+            self.end_headers()
         elif parsed_path.path == "/redirect2":
             self.send_response(302)
             self.send_header("Content-Length", "0")
diff --git a/tests/tests_asyncio/test_playwright_requests.py b/tests/tests_asyncio/test_playwright_requests.py
index fc972947..32dd660f 100644
--- a/tests/tests_asyncio/test_playwright_requests.py
+++ b/tests/tests_asyncio/test_playwright_requests.py
@@ -465,6 +465,23 @@ async def cancel_download(download):
                     f" exc_type={type(excinfo.value)} exc_msg={str(excinfo.value)}",
                 ) in self._caplog.record_tuples
 
+    @allow_windows
+    async def test_fail_status_204(self):
+        async with make_handler({"PLAYWRIGHT_BROWSER_TYPE": self.browser_type}) as handler:
+            with MockServer() as server:
+                request = Request(
+                    url=server.urljoin("/status/204"),
+                    meta={"playwright": True},
+                )
+                with pytest.raises(PlaywrightError) as excinfo:
+                    await handler._download_request(request, Spider("foo"))
+                assert (
+                    "scrapy-playwright",
+                    logging.WARNING,
+                    f"Closing page due to failed request: {request}"
+                    f" exc_type={type(excinfo.value)} exc_msg={str(excinfo.value)}",
+                ) in self._caplog.record_tuples
+
 
 class TestCaseChromium(IsolatedAsyncioTestCase, MixinTestCase):
     browser_type = "chromium"