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+<?php
+/**
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 Bjoern Schiessle <schiessle@owncloud.com>
+ * This file is licensed under the Affero General Public License version 3 or
+ * later.
+ * See the COPYING-README file.
+ */
+
+class Test_Urlgenerator extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase {
+
+
+	/**
+	 * @small
+	 * @brief test absolute URL construction
+	 * @dataProvider provideURLs
+	 */
+	function testGetAbsoluteURL($url, $expectedResult) {
+
+		$urlGenerator = new \OC\URLGenerator(null);
+		$result = $urlGenerator->getAbsoluteURL($url);
+
+		$this->assertEquals($expectedResult, $result);
+	}
+
+	public function provideURLs() {
+		return array(
+			array("index.php", "http://localhost/index.php"),
+			array("/index.php", "http://localhost/index.php"),
+			array("/apps/index.php", "http://localhost/apps/index.php"),
+			array("apps/index.php", "http://localhost/apps/index.php"),
+			);
+	}
+}
+