diff --git a/test/integration/roles/test_uri/files/testserver.py b/test/integration/roles/test_uri/files/testserver.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..03cbfec507
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/integration/roles/test_uri/files/testserver.py
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+import mimetypes
+import SimpleHTTPServer
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    mimetypes.add_type('application/json', '.json')
+    SimpleHTTPServer.test()
diff --git a/test/integration/roles/test_uri/tasks/main.yml b/test/integration/roles/test_uri/tasks/main.yml
index 6072754f22..b6fc5094cb 100644
--- a/test/integration/roles/test_uri/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/test/integration/roles/test_uri/tasks/main.yml
@@ -37,6 +37,10 @@
     dest: "{{files_dir}}/{{ item }}"
   with_sequence: start=0 end=30 format=fail%d.json
 
+- copy:
+    src: "testserver.py"
+    dest: "{{ output_dir }}/testserver.py"
+
 - name: verify that python2 is installed so this test can continue
   shell: which python2
   register: py2