From: Andrew Rabert <draje@nullsum.net>
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2017 02:29:34 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: Fetch full URL if applicable
X-Git-Tag: v5.0.0~82^2~1
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6e2bbdafd0d9dc7e20c72d18b275b8289b6ea7fe;p=thirdparty%2Ftornado.git

Fetch full URL if applicable
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diff --git a/tornado/testing.py b/tornado/testing.py
index eff2684d2..2456f2164 100644
--- a/tornado/testing.py
+++ b/tornado/testing.py
@@ -395,14 +395,20 @@ class AsyncHTTPTestCase(AsyncTestCase):
         raise NotImplementedError()
 
     def fetch(self, path, **kwargs):
-        """Convenience method to synchronously fetch a url.
+        """Convenience method to synchronously fetch a URL.
 
         The given path will be appended to the local server's host and
         port.  Any additional kwargs will be passed directly to
         `.AsyncHTTPClient.fetch` (and so could be used to pass
         ``method="POST"``, ``body="..."``, etc).
+
+        If the path begins with http:// or https://, it will be treated as a
+        full URL and will be fetched as-is.
         """
-        self.http_client.fetch(self.get_url(path), self.stop, **kwargs)
+        if path.lower().startswith(('http://', 'https://')):
+            self.http_client.fetch(path, self.stop, **kwargs)
+        else:
+            self.http_client.fetch(self.get_url(path), self.stop, **kwargs)
         return self.wait()
 
     def get_httpserver_options(self):