import requests import unittest MAX_REQ_SIZE = 131072 class TestBigRequest(unittest.TestCase): def setUp(self): self.url = 'http://localhost:8888/clients' self.data = 'X' * MAX_REQ_SIZE def test_post(self): returned = requests.post(self.url, data=self.data) self.assertEqual(returned.status_code, 413) if __name__ == '__main__': unittest.main()