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+#!/bin/sh
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2015 Jeromy Johnson
+# MIT Licensed; see the LICENSE file in this repository.
+#
+
+test_description="test http requests made by cli"
+
+. lib/test-lib.sh
+
+test_init_ipfs
+test_launch_ipfs_daemon
+
+test_expect_success "can make http request against nc server" '
+	go-sleep 0.5s | nc -l 5005 > nc_out &
+	ipfs cat /ipfs/Qmabcdef --api /ip4/127.0.0.1/tcp/5005 || true
+'
+
+test_expect_success "output does not contain multipart info" '
+	test_expect_code 1 grep multipart nc_out
+'
+
+test_expect_success "request looks good" '
+	grep "POST /api/v0/cat" nc_out
+'
+
+test_expect_success "api flag does not appear in request" '
+	test_expect_code 1 grep "api=/ip4" nc_out
+'
+
+test_kill_ipfs_daemon
+
+test_done