diff --git a/dbms/tests/integration/helpers/cluster.py b/dbms/tests/integration/helpers/cluster.py
index 3537475ce96..b796c39151c 100644
--- a/dbms/tests/integration/helpers/cluster.py
+++ b/dbms/tests/integration/helpers/cluster.py
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ import socket
 import subprocess
 import time
 import urllib
+import httplib
 import xml.dom.minidom
 import logging
 import docker
@@ -652,7 +653,7 @@ class ClickHouseInstance:
         return self.client.query_and_get_answer_with_error(sql, stdin, timeout, settings, user, password)
 
     # Connects to the instance via HTTP interface, sends a query and returns the answer
-    def http_query(self, sql, data=None, params=None, user=None, password=None):
+    def http_query(self, sql, data=None, params=None, user=None, password=None, expect_fail_and_get_error=False):
         if params is None:
             params = {}
         else:
@@ -668,7 +669,23 @@ class ClickHouseInstance:
 
         url = "http://" + auth + self.ip_address + ":8123/?" + urllib.urlencode(params)
 
-        return urllib.urlopen(url, data).read()
+        open_result = urllib.urlopen(url, data)
+
+        def http_code_and_message():
+            return str(open_result.getcode()) + " " + httplib.responses[open_result.getcode()] + ": " + open_result.read()
+            
+        if expect_fail_and_get_error:
+            if open_result.getcode() == 200:
+                raise Exception("ClickHouse HTTP server is expected to fail, but succeeded: " + open_result.read())
+            return http_code_and_message()
+        else:
+            if open_result.getcode() != 200:
+                raise Exception("ClickHouse HTTP server returned " + http_code_and_message())
+            return open_result.read()
+
+    # Connects to the instance via HTTP interface, sends a query, expects an error and return the error message
+    def http_query_and_get_error(self, sql, data=None, params=None, user=None, password=None):
+        return self.http_query(sql=sql, data=data, params=params, user=user, password=password, expect_fail_and_get_error=True)
 
     def kill_clickhouse(self, stop_start_wait_sec=5):
         pid = self.get_process_pid("clickhouse")
diff --git a/dbms/tests/integration/test_http_and_readonly/test.py b/dbms/tests/integration/test_http_and_readonly/test.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..ea25b787a67
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dbms/tests/integration/test_http_and_readonly/test.py
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+import pytest
+from helpers.cluster import ClickHouseCluster
+
+cluster = ClickHouseCluster(__file__)
+instance = cluster.add_instance('instance')
+
+
+@pytest.fixture(scope="module", autouse=True)
+def setup_nodes():
+    try:
+        cluster.start()
+        yield cluster
+
+    finally:
+        cluster.shutdown()
+
+
+def test_http_get_is_readonly():
+    assert "Cannot execute query in readonly mode" in instance.http_query_and_get_error("CREATE TABLE xxx (a Date) ENGINE = MergeTree(a, a, 256)")
+    assert "Cannot modify 'readonly' setting in readonly mode" in instance.http_query_and_get_error("CREATE TABLE xxx (a Date) ENGINE = MergeTree(a, a, 256)", params={"readonly": 0})