diff --git a/cloudinit/tests/test_safeyaml.py b/cloudinit/tests/test_safeyaml.py
index b52827bf..dceef7af 100644
--- a/cloudinit/tests/test_safeyaml.py
+++ b/cloudinit/tests/test_safeyaml.py
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@
 from cloudinit import safeyaml as yaml
 from cloudinit import tests
 
+import tempfile
+
 
 class TestSafeYaml(tests.TestCase):
     def test_simple(self):
@@ -27,3 +29,19 @@ class TestSafeYaml(tests.TestCase):
         # in the past this type was allowed, but not now, so explicit test.
         blob = "{k1: !!python/unicode 'my unicode', k2: my string}"
         self.assertRaises(yaml.YAMLError, yaml.loads, blob)
+
+    def test_dumps_returns_string(self):
+        self.assertTrue(
+            isinstance(yaml.dumps(867 - 5309), (str,)))
+
+    def test_dumps_is_loadable(self):
+        mydata = {'a': 'hey', 'b': ['bee', 'Bea']}
+        self.assertEqual(yaml.loads(yaml.dumps(mydata)), mydata)
+
+    def test_load(self):
+        valid_yaml = "foo: bar"
+        expected = {'foo': 'bar'}
+        with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(mode='w', delete=False) as tmpf:
+            tmpf.write(valid_yaml)
+            tmpf.close()
+            self.assertEqual(yaml.load(tmpf.name), expected)
diff --git a/cloudinit/tests/test_url_helper.py b/cloudinit/tests/test_url_helper.py
index 1d844660..bcc88ef2 100644
--- a/cloudinit/tests/test_url_helper.py
+++ b/cloudinit/tests/test_url_helper.py
@@ -80,6 +80,23 @@ class UrlHelperFetchTest(tests.TestCase):
         self.assertEqual(b"it worked!", resp.contents)
         self.assertEqual(url_helper.OK, resp.status_code)
 
+    @httpretty.activate
+    def test_no_protocol_url(self):
+        body = b'it worked!'
+        no_proto = 'www.yahoo.com'
+        httpretty.register_uri(httpretty.GET, "http://" + no_proto, body=body)
+        resp = url_helper.read_url(no_proto)
+        self.assertTrue(resp.url.startswith("http://"))
+
+    @httpretty.activate
+    def test_response_has_url(self):
+        body = b'it worked!'
+        url = 'http://www.yahoo.com/'
+        httpretty.register_uri(httpretty.GET, url, body=body)
+        resp = url_helper.read_url(url)
+        self.assertEqual(resp.url, url)
+        self.assertEqual(body, resp.contents)
+
     @httpretty.activate
     def test_retry_url_fetch(self):
         httpretty.register_uri(httpretty.GET,