diff --git a/tests/test_downloader_handlers.py b/tests/test_downloader_handlers.py
index 45d4aa952..87ab4c9e5 100644
--- a/tests/test_downloader_handlers.py
+++ b/tests/test_downloader_handlers.py
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ from scrapy.responsetypes import responsetypes
 from scrapy.settings import Settings
 from scrapy.utils.test import get_crawler, skip_if_no_boto
 from scrapy.utils.python import to_bytes
-from scrapy.exceptions import NotConfigured
+from scrapy.exceptions import NotConfigured, ScrapyDeprecationWarning
 
 from tests.mockserver import MockServer, ssl_context_factory, Echo
 from tests.spiders import SingleRequestSpider
@@ -687,6 +687,18 @@ class HttpProxyTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
         request = Request('http://example.com', meta={'proxy': http_proxy})
         return self.download_request(request, Spider('foo')).addCallback(_test)
 
+    def test_download_with_proxy_https_noconnect(self):
+        def _test(response):
+            self.assertEqual(response.status, 200)
+            self.assertEqual(response.url, request.url)
+            self.assertEqual(response.body, b'https://example.com')
+
+        http_proxy = '%s?noconnect' % self.getURL('')
+        request = Request('https://example.com', meta={'proxy': http_proxy})
+        with self.assertWarnsRegex(ScrapyDeprecationWarning,
+                                   r'Using HTTPS proxies in the noconnect mode is deprecated'):
+            return self.download_request(request, Spider('foo')).addCallback(_test)
+
     def test_download_without_proxy(self):
         def _test(response):
             self.assertEqual(response.status, 200)