diff --git a/wsgiproxy/test_wsgiproxy.py b/wsgiproxy/test_wsgiproxy.py
index 39355d9..7806d3b 100644
--- a/wsgiproxy/test_wsgiproxy.py
+++ b/wsgiproxy/test_wsgiproxy.py
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+import sys
+import platform
 import unittest
 from wsgiproxy import proxies
 from webtest import TestApp
@@ -86,6 +88,7 @@ class TestHttplib(unittest.TestCase):
                             headers=[('Transfer-Encoding', 'chunked')])
         resp.mustcontain(no='chunked')
 
+    @unittest.skipIf(sys.hexversion < 0x3000000 and 'pypy' not in platform.python_implementation().lower(), "broken on cpython2")
     def test_quoted_utf8_url(self):
         path = '/targets/NR2F1%C3%82-human/'
         resp = self.app.get(path)