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+# copyright 2010 LOGILAB S.A. (Paris, FRANCE), all rights reserved.
+# contact http://www.logilab.fr/ -- mailto:contact@logilab.fr
+#
+# This file is part of CubicWeb.
+#
+# CubicWeb is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
+# terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free
+# Software Foundation, either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option)
+# any later version.
+#
+# CubicWeb is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
+# ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS
+# FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more
+# details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along
+# with CubicWeb.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+"""unittest for cubicweb.devtools.httptest module"""
+
+from six.moves import http_client
+
+from logilab.common.testlib import Tags
+from cubicweb.devtools.httptest import CubicWebServerTC
+
+
+class TwistedCWAnonTC(CubicWebServerTC):
+
+    def test_response(self):
+        try:
+            response = self.web_get()
+        except http_client.NotConnected as ex:
+            self.fail("Can't connection to test server: %s" % ex)
+
+    def test_response_anon(self):
+        response = self.web_get()
+        self.assertEqual(response.status, http_client.OK)
+
+    def test_base_url(self):
+        if self.config['base-url'] not in self.web_get().read():
+            self.fail('no mention of base url in retrieved page')
+
+
+class TwistedCWIdentTC(CubicWebServerTC):
+    test_db_id = 'httptest-cwident'
+    anonymous_allowed = False
+    tags = CubicWebServerTC.tags | Tags(('auth',))
+
+    def test_response_denied(self):
+        response = self.web_get()
+        self.assertEqual(response.status, http_client.FORBIDDEN)
+
+    def test_login(self):
+        response = self.web_get()
+        if response.status != http_client.FORBIDDEN:
+            self.skipTest('Already authenticated, "test_response_denied" must have failed')
+        # login
+        self.web_login(self.admlogin, self.admpassword)
+        response = self.web_get()
+        self.assertEqual(response.status, http_client.OK, response.body)
+        # logout
+        self.web_logout()
+        response = self.web_get()
+        self.assertEqual(response.status, http_client.FORBIDDEN, response.body)
+
+
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    from logilab.common.testlib import unittest_main
+    unittest_main()