Simple example of using pytest and requests to test http requests

pytest_example.py

# pip install pytest requests
# py.test
import requests


def test_home():
    "GET request to url returns a 200"
    url = 'https://monitorial.com/'
    resp = requests.get(url)
    assert resp.status_code == 200


def test_http_to_https_redirect():
    "HTTP requests should be redirected to HTTPS"
    url = 'http://monitorial.com/'
    resp = requests.get(url)
    assert resp.url == 'https://monitorial.com/'
    assert resp.history[0].status_code == 301