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+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+# (c) 2015, Michael Scherer <mscherer@redhat.com>
+#
+# This file is part of Ansible
+#
+# Ansible is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# Ansible is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with Ansible.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+from ansible.compat.tests import unittest
+from ansible.module_utils import known_hosts
+
+class TestAnsibleModuleKnownHosts(unittest.TestCase):
+    urls = {
+        'ssh://one.example.org/example.git':
+            {'is_ssh_url': True, 'get_fqdn': 'one.example.org'},
+        'ssh+git://two.example.org/example.git':
+            {'is_ssh_url': True, 'get_fqdn': 'two.example.org'},
+        'rsync://three.example.org/user/example.git':
+            {'is_ssh_url': False, 'get_fqdn': 'three.example.org'},
+        'git@four.example.org:user/example.git':
+            {'is_ssh_url': True, 'get_fqdn': 'four.example.org'},
+        'git+ssh://five.example.org/example.git':
+            {'is_ssh_url': True, 'get_fqdn': 'five.example.org'},
+        'ssh://six.example.org:21/example.org':
+            {'is_ssh_url': True, 'get_fqdn': 'six.example.org'},
+    }
+
+    def test_is_ssh_url(self):
+        for u in self.urls:
+            self.assertEqual(known_hosts.is_ssh_url(u), self.urls[u]['is_ssh_url'])
+
+    def test_get_fqdn(self):
+        for u in self.urls:
+            self.assertEqual(known_hosts.get_fqdn(u), self.urls[u]['get_fqdn'])
+
+
+