diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 825892a22..b24d68e83 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ Revision history for Dancer
         (Yanick Champoux, reported by sciurius)
     * GH #954: don't die on autoflush for older perls. 
         (Yanick Champoux, reported by metateck and David Golden)
+    * GH #950: Dancer::Test functions now populate REQUEST_URI.
+        (Yanick Champoux, reported by Sören Kornetzki)
 
     [ DOCUMENTATION ]
     * GH #942: simpilify the Apache deployment docs for cgi/fcgi.
diff --git a/lib/Dancer/Test.pm b/lib/Dancer/Test.pm
index 404fde945..a8df7f723 100644
--- a/lib/Dancer/Test.pm
+++ b/lib/Dancer/Test.pm
@@ -361,6 +361,17 @@ sub dancer_response {
         $extra_env->{'CONTENT_TYPE'} = $headers->header('Content-Type');
     }
 
+    # fake the REQUEST_URI
+    # TODO deal with the params
+    unless( $extra_env->{REQUEST_URI} ) {
+        $extra_env->{REQUEST_URI} = $path;
+        if ( $method eq 'GET' and $params ) {
+            $extra_env->{REQUEST_URI} .=
+                '?' . join '&', map { join '=', $_, $params->{$_} } 
+                                    sort keys %$params;
+        }
+    }
+
     my $request = Dancer::Request->new_for_request(
         $method => $path,
         $params, $body, $headers, $extra_env
diff --git a/t/23_dancer_tests/03_uris.t b/t/23_dancer_tests/03_uris.t
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..78d3741f6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t/23_dancer_tests/03_uris.t
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+
+use Test::More tests => 5;
+
+use Dancer ':tests';
+use Dancer::Test;
+
+get '/uri_base' => sub { request->uri_base };
+get '/uri' => sub { request->uri };
+get '/path' => sub { request->path };
+
+response_content_is '/uri_base' => 'http://localhost';
+response_content_is '/uri' => '/uri';
+response_content_is '/uri?with=params' => '/uri?with=params';
+response_content_is '/path' => '/path';
+response_content_is '/path?with=params' => '/path';
+