This is basic flake8 testing without any 'hacking' extensions. We may wish to add those later, but for the time being this code is so much of its own particular style that that would be painful. In any case, the hacking rules aren't that great. In the process some documentation adjustments were made while fixing line lenghts. A dead link was removed.
If you wish to run the tests without those tests which speak to the internet (there are a few that validate that the intercept does not intercept), set the WSGI_INTERCEPT_SKIP_NETWORK environment variable to "True". Any other value or no value will mean that the network tests will run.