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+#!/usr/bin/perl
+
+# (C) Maxim Dounin
+# (C) Nginx, Inc.
+
+# Test for uwsgi backend with SSL.
+
+###############################################################################
+
+use warnings;
+use strict;
+
+use Test::More;
+use Socket qw/ CRLF /;
+
+BEGIN { use FindBin; chdir($FindBin::Bin); }
+
+use lib 'lib';
+use Test::Nginx;
+
+###############################################################################
+
+select STDERR; $| = 1;
+select STDOUT; $| = 1;
+
+my $t = Test::Nginx->new()->has(qw/http uwsgi http_ssl/)
+	->has_daemon('uwsgi')->has_daemon('openssl')->plan(7)
+	->write_file_expand('nginx.conf', <<'EOF');
+
+%%TEST_GLOBALS%%
+
+daemon off;
+
+events {
+}
+
+http {
+    %%TEST_GLOBALS_HTTP%%
+
+    upstream u {
+        server 127.0.0.1:8081;
+    }
+
+    server {
+        listen       127.0.0.1:8080;
+        server_name  localhost;
+
+        location / {
+            uwsgi_pass suwsgi://127.0.0.1:8081;
+            uwsgi_param SERVER_PROTOCOL $server_protocol;
+            uwsgi_param HTTP_X_BLAH "blah";
+            uwsgi_pass_request_body off;
+        }
+
+        location /var {
+            uwsgi_pass suwsgi://$arg_b;
+            uwsgi_param SERVER_PROTOCOL $server_protocol;
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+EOF
+
+$t->write_file('openssl.conf', <<EOF);
+[ req ]
+default_bits = 2048
+encrypt_key = no
+distinguished_name = req_distinguished_name
+[ req_distinguished_name ]
+EOF
+
+my $d = $t->testdir();
+my $crt = "$d/uwsgi.crt";
+my $key = "$d/uwsgi.key";
+
+foreach my $name ('uwsgi') {
+	system('openssl req -x509 -new '
+		. "-config $d/openssl.conf -subj /CN=$name/ "
+		. "-out $d/$name.crt -keyout $d/$name.key "
+		. ">>$d/openssl.out 2>&1") == 0
+		or die "Can't create certificate for $name: $!\n";
+}
+
+$t->write_file('uwsgi_test_app.py', <<END);
+
+def application(env, start_response):
+    start_response('200 OK', [('Content-Type','text/plain')])
+    return b"SEE-THIS"
+
+END
+
+my $uwsgihelp = `uwsgi -h`;
+my @uwsgiopts = ();
+
+if ($uwsgihelp !~ /--wsgi-file/) {
+	# uwsgi has no python support, maybe plugin load is necessary
+	push @uwsgiopts, '--plugin', 'python';
+}
+
+$t->run_daemon('uwsgi', @uwsgiopts,
+	'--ssl-socket', '127.0.0.1:' . port(8081) . ",$crt,$key",
+	'--wsgi-file', $d . '/uwsgi_test_app.py',
+	'--logto', $d . '/uwsgi_log');
+
+$t->run();
+
+$t->waitforsocket('127.0.0.1:' . port(8081))
+	or die "Can't start uwsgi";
+
+###############################################################################
+
+TODO: {
+todo_skip 'not yet', 7 unless $t->has_version('1.19.1');
+
+like(http_get('/'), qr/SEE-THIS/, 'uwsgi request');
+like(http_head('/head'), qr/200 OK(?!.*SEE-THIS)/s, 'no data in HEAD');
+
+like(http_get_headers('/headers'), qr/SEE-THIS/,
+	'uwsgi request with many ignored headers');
+
+like(http_get('/var?b=127.0.0.1:' . port(8081)), qr/SEE-THIS/,
+	'uwsgi with variables');
+like(http_get('/var?b=u'), qr/SEE-THIS/, 'uwsgi with variables to upstream');
+
+like(http_post('/'), qr/SEE-THIS/, 'uwsgi post');
+like(http_post_big('/'), qr/SEE-THIS/, 'uwsgi big post');
+
+}
+
+###############################################################################
+
+sub http_get_headers {
+	my ($url, %extra) = @_;
+	return http(<<EOF, %extra);
+GET $url HTTP/1.0
+Host: localhost
+X-Blah: ignored header
+X-Blah: ignored header
+X-Blah: ignored header
+X-Blah: ignored header
+X-Blah: ignored header
+X-Blah: ignored header
+X-Blah: ignored header
+X-Blah: ignored header
+X-Blah: ignored header
+X-Blah: ignored header
+X-Blah: ignored header
+X-Blah: ignored header
+X-Blah: ignored header
+X-Blah: ignored header
+X-Blah: ignored header
+X-Blah: ignored header
+X-Blah: ignored header
+X-Blah: ignored header
+X-Blah: ignored header
+
+EOF
+}
+
+sub http_post {
+	my ($url, %extra) = @_;
+
+	my $p = "POST $url HTTP/1.0" . CRLF .
+		"Host: localhost" . CRLF .
+		"Content-Length: 10" . CRLF .
+		CRLF .
+		"1234567890";
+
+	return http($p, %extra);
+}
+
+sub http_post_big {
+	my ($url, %extra) = @_;
+
+	my $p = "POST $url HTTP/1.0" . CRLF .
+		"Host: localhost" . CRLF .
+		"Content-Length: 10240" . CRLF .
+		CRLF .
+		("1234567890" x 1024);
+
+	return http($p, %extra);
+}
+
+###############################################################################