diff --git a/modules/test/test_validate.py b/modules/test/test_validate.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..aefc119
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/test/test_validate.py
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+"""
+test_validate.py - tests for the validation module
+author: mutantmonkey <mutantmonkey@mutantmonkey.in>
+"""
+
+import re
+import unittest
+from mock import MagicMock, Mock
+from modules.validate import val
+
+
+class TestValidate(unittest.TestCase):
+    def setUp(self):
+        self.phenny = MagicMock()
+
+    def test_valid(self):
+        url = 'http://vtluug.org/'
+        input = Mock(group=lambda x: url)
+        val(self.phenny, input)
+
+        self.phenny.reply.assert_called_once_with('{0} is Valid'.format(url))
+
+    def test_invalid(self):
+        url = 'http://microsoft.com/'
+        input = Mock(group=lambda x: url)
+        val(self.phenny, input)
+
+        out = self.phenny.reply.call_args[0][0]
+        m = re.match('^{0} is Invalid \(\d+ errors\)'.format(url),
+                out, flags=re.UNICODE)
+        self.assertTrue(m)
diff --git a/modules/validate.py b/modules/validate.py
index 624b51d..7b1b612 100644
--- a/modules/validate.py
+++ b/modules/validate.py
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ def val(phenny, input):
     if not uri.startswith('http://'): 
         uri = 'http://' + uri
 
-    path = '/check?uri=%s;output=xml' % web.urllib.quote(uri)
+    path = '/check?uri=%s;output=xml' % web.quote(uri)
     info = web.head('http://validator.w3.org' + path)
 
     result = uri + ' is '