diff --git a/scrapy/tests/test_spidermiddleware_referer.py b/scrapy/tests/test_spidermiddleware_referer.py
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+++ b/scrapy/tests/test_spidermiddleware_referer.py
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+from unittest import TestCase
+
+from scrapy.http import Response, Request
+from scrapy.spider import BaseSpider
+from scrapy.contrib.spidermiddleware.referer import RefererMiddleware
+
+
+class TestRefererMiddleware(TestCase):
+
+    def setUp(self):
+        self.spider = BaseSpider()
+        self.mw = RefererMiddleware()
+
+    def test_process_spider_output(self):
+        res = Response('http://scrapytest.org')
+        reqs = [Request('http://scrapytest.org/')]
+
+        out = list(self.mw.process_spider_output(res, reqs, self.spider))
+        self.assertEquals(out[0].headers.get('Referer'),
+                          'http://scrapytest.org')
+