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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.asterix.external.input.record.reader;
+
+import org.apache.asterix.external.input.record.reader.rss.RSSRecordReader;
+import org.junit.Assert;
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.net.MalformedURLException;
+
+public class RSSRecordReaderTest {
+    @Test
+    public void fetchFromDummyWebsite() throws MalformedURLException {
+        String dummyRssFeedURL = "http://foobar";
+        RSSRecordReader rssRecordReader = new RSSRecordReader(dummyRssFeedURL);
+        Exception expectedException = null;
+        try {
+            rssRecordReader.next();
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            expectedException = e;
+        }
+        Assert.assertNotNull(expectedException);
+        Assert.assertTrue(expectedException.getMessage().contains("UnknownHostException"));
+    }
+}