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+'use strict';
+const common = require('../common');
+
+// This test ensures that Unicode characters in the URL get handled correctly
+// by `http`
+// Refs: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/13296
+
+const assert = require('assert');
+const http = require('http');
+
+const expected = '/café🐶';
+
+assert.strictEqual(
+ expected,
+ '/caf\u{e9}\u{1f436}',
+ 'Sanity check that string literal produced the expected string'
+);
+
+const server = http.createServer(common.mustCall(function(req, res) {
+  assert.strictEqual(req.url, expected);
+  req.on('data', common.mustCall(function() {
+  })).on('end', common.mustCall(function() {
+    server.close();
+    res.writeHead(200);
+    res.end('hello world\n');
+  }));
+
+}));
+
+server.listen(0, function() {
+  http.request({
+    port: this.address().port,
+    path: expected,
+    method: 'GET'
+  }, common.mustCall(function(res) {
+    res.resume();
+  })).on('error', function(e) {
+    console.log(e.message);
+    process.exit(1);
+  }).end();
+});