diff --git a/smoketest/README.md b/smoketest/README.md
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+Perform smoke test against live server via kioclient. This attempts all
+file operations kioclient can perform against a server you pass as argument
+when calling the script.
+This of course only makes sense for slaves which are readwritable.
+
+Example invocation:
+```
+./smoke.sh sftp://me@localhost/tmp
+```
diff --git a/smoketest/file1 b/smoketest/file1
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+content1
diff --git a/smoketest/kio_smoke_test/.keep b/smoketest/kio_smoke_test/.keep
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diff --git a/smoketest/smoke.sh b/smoketest/smoke.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+#
+# Copyright (C) 2019 Harald Sitter <sitter@kde.org>
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
+# published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of
+# the License or any later version accepted by the membership of
+# KDE e.V. (or its successor approved by the membership of KDE
+# e.V.), which shall act as a proxy defined in Section 14 of
+# version 3 of the license.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+set -e
+
+export KDE_FORK_SLAVES=1
+
+# enter a valid localhost login here
+host=$1
+if [ "$host" = "" ]; then
+    echo "Need to pass base uri as argument... e.g. smb://foo/srv"
+    exit 1
+fi
+dir='kio_smoke_test'
+uri="$host/$dir"
+
+kioclient5 remove $uri || true
+kioclient5 copy $dir $uri
+
+# upload
+kioclient5 copy file1 $uri/file1
+if [ "$(kioclient5 cat $uri/file1)" != "content1" ]; then
+    echo "Reading file1 failed!"
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+# remote rename
+kioclient5 move $uri/file1 $uri/file2
+if [ "$(kioclient5 cat $uri/file2)" != "content1" ]; then
+    echo "Moving to file2 failed!"
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+if kioclient5 cat $uri/file1; then
+    echo "Tried to move file1 to file2 but now both exist!"
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+# remote copy
+kioclient5 copy $uri/file2 $uri/file1
+
+# both exist
+kioclient5 cat $uri/file1
+kioclient5 cat $uri/file2
+
+# remote remove
+kioclient5 remove $uri/file1
+if kioclient5 cat $uri/file1; then
+    echo "Tried to remove file1 but still exists!"
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+# ls
+kioclient5 ls $uri # not checking output, too lazy
+
+# download
+rm -rfv file2
+kioclient5 copy $uri/file2 file://`pwd`/file2 # download
+if [ ! -e file2 ]; then
+    echo "failed to download :("
+    exit 1
+fi
+rm -rfv file2
+
+# delete remote dir again
+kioclient5 remove $uri