diff --git a/docs/api.rst b/docs/api.rst
index 48b196d..bbea0ec 100644
--- a/docs/api.rst
+++ b/docs/api.rst
@@ -55,3 +55,10 @@
 .. automodule:: webtest.debugapp
    :members:
    :show-inheritance:
+
+:class:`webtest.utils.URL`
+--------------------------------------
+
+.. autoclass:: webtest.utils.URL
+   :member-order: bysource
+   :members:
diff --git a/docs/testresponse.rst b/docs/testresponse.rst
index 7e27a26..f84b01f 100644
--- a/docs/testresponse.rst
+++ b/docs/testresponse.rst
@@ -50,6 +50,16 @@ The inherited attributes that are most interesting:
     The :class:`webob.request.BaseRequest` object used to generate
     this response.
 
+``response.location``
+    The `Location` header URL of a redirect as a :class:`webtest.utils.URL` object or
+    None. You can easily test properties of the URL using its
+    :meth:`webtest.utils.URL.match` and :meth:`webtest.utils.URL.loose_match`
+    methods.
+
+``response.content_location``
+    The `Content-Location` header URL of a redirect as a :class:`webtest.utils.URL` object or
+    None.
+
 The added methods:
 
 ``response.follow(**kw)``:
@@ -96,6 +106,10 @@ The added methods:
     If there is just a single form, this returns that.  It is an error
     if you use this and there are multiple forms.
 
+``response.url``
+    The URL of the request as a :class:`webtest.utils.URL` object or None.
+
+
 
 .. rubric:: Footnotes
 
diff --git a/tests/test_response.py b/tests/test_response.py
index 5ad1583..f92db70 100644
--- a/tests/test_response.py
+++ b/tests/test_response.py
@@ -416,6 +416,15 @@ def test_content_dezips(self):
         resp = app.get('/')
         self.assertEqual(resp.body, b'test')
 
+    def test_urls(self):
+        app = webtest.TestApp(debug_app)
+        res = app.post('/')
+        res.location = 'http://pylons.org'
+        res.content_location = 'https://example.org/a/b/c'
+        self.assertTrue(res.location.loose_match('http://'))
+        self.assertTrue(res.content_location.match('https://example.org/a/b/c'))
+        self.assertTrue(res.url.match('http://localhost/'))
+
 
 class TestFollow(unittest.TestCase):
 
diff --git a/tests/test_utils.py b/tests/test_utils.py
index 7bf54ff..a24cc56 100644
--- a/tests/test_utils.py
+++ b/tests/test_utils.py
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 from .compat import unittest
 from webtest import utils
 
+import pytest
 
 class NoDefaultTest(unittest.TestCase):
 
@@ -117,3 +118,124 @@ def test_json_method_doc(self):
 
     def test_json_method_name(self):
         self.assertEqual(self.mock.foo_json.__name__, 'foo_json')
+
+class TestURL:
+    @property
+    def url(self):
+        return utils.URL('https://example.com/a/b/c?foo=bar&foo=barbar&bar=foo')
+
+    def test_str(self):
+        assert (
+            str(self.url)
+            == 'https://example.com/a/b/c?foo=bar&foo=barbar&bar=foo'
+        )
+
+    def test_repr(self):
+        assert (
+            repr(self.url)
+            == "<URL 'https://example.com/a/b/c?foo=bar&foo=barbar&bar=foo'>"
+        )
+
+    def test_scheme(self):
+        assert self.url.scheme == 'https'
+
+    def test_domain(self):
+        assert self.url.domain == 'example.com'
+
+    def test_host(self):
+        # webob.Response is wrong in environ_from_url(), here it should be
+        # example.com
+        assert self.url.host == 'example.com:443'
+
+    def test_netloc(self):
+        # so netloc was implemented to replace it
+        assert self.url.netloc == 'example.com'
+
+    def test_host_url(self):
+        assert self.url.host_url == 'https://example.com'
+
+    def test_path(self):
+        assert self.url.path == '/a/b/c'
+
+    def test_path_url(self):
+        assert self.url.path_url == 'https://example.com/a/b/c'
+
+    def test_path_qs(self):
+        assert self.url.path_qs == '/a/b/c?foo=bar&foo=barbar&bar=foo'
+
+    def test_params(self):
+        assert list(self.url.params.items()) == [
+            ('foo', 'bar'), ('foo', 'barbar'), ('bar', 'foo')]
+        assert self.url.params['foo'] == 'barbar'
+        assert self.url.query_string == 'foo=bar&foo=barbar&bar=foo'
+
+    def test_join(self):
+        assert (self.url.join('x/y?foofo=bar')
+                == 'https://example.com/a/b/x/y?foofo=bar')
+
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize('other', [
+        'https://example.com/a/b/c?foo=bar&foo=barbar&bar=foo',
+        'https://example.com/a/b/c?foo=*&bar=?&!foobar',
+    ])
+    def test_do_match(self, other):
+        assert self.url.match(other)
+
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize('other', [
+        'https://example.com/a/b/c?foo=bar',
+    ])
+    def test_do_not_match(self, other):
+        assert not self.url.match(other)
+
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize('other,_repr', [
+        ('https://example.com/a/b/c?foo=bar&bar=foo',
+         '?foo=barbar was not expected.'),
+        # multiple errors
+        ('https://example.com/a/b/c?foo=bar',
+         '?foo=barbar was not expected.\n?bar=foo was not expected.'),
+    ])
+    def test_do_not_match_repr(self, other, _repr):
+        assert repr(self.url.match(other)) == _repr
+
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize('other', [
+        'https://',
+        '//example.com',
+        'https://example.com',
+        '/a/b/c',
+        'https://example.com/a/b/c',
+        'https://example.com/a/b/c?foo=bar&foo=barbar&bar=foo',
+        'https://example.com/a/b/c?foo=bar',
+        'https://example.com/a/b/c?foo=barbar',
+        '?!foobar',
+        '?bar=?',
+        '?bar=?&foo=*',
+    ])
+    def test_do_loose_match(self, other):
+        assert self.url.loose_match(other)
+
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize('other', [
+        'http://',
+        '//a.example.com',
+        '/a/b/c/',
+        '/x',
+        'https://example.com/a/b/c/',
+        'https://example.com/x',
+    ])
+    def test_do_not_loose_match(self, other):
+        assert not self.url.loose_match(other)
+
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize('other,_repr', [
+        ('http://', 'scheme differs https != http'),
+        ('//a.example.com', 'netloc differs example.com != a.example.com'),
+        ('/a/b/c/', 'path differs /a/b/c != /a/b/c/'),
+
+        ('?!foo', 'foo should be absent, but ?foo=bar&foo=barbar found.'),
+        ('?foo=?',
+         'foo should have only one value but ?foo=bar&foo=barbar found.'),
+        ('?foobar=?', 'foobar should have only one value but is absent.'),
+        ('?foo=barfoo',
+         'foo should have value \'barfoo\' but ?foo=bar&foo=barbar found.'),
+        ('?foobar=barfoo',
+         'foobar should have value \'barfoo\' but is absent.'),
+    ])
+    def test_do_not_loose_match_repr(self, other, _repr):
+        assert repr(self.url.loose_match(other)) == _repr
diff --git a/webtest/response.py b/webtest/response.py
index 98609b5..22497bf 100644
--- a/webtest/response.py
+++ b/webtest/response.py
@@ -545,3 +545,19 @@ def showbrowser(self):
         else:
             url = 'file://' + name
         webbrowser.open_new(url)
+
+    @webob.Response.location.getter
+    def location(self):
+        value = webob.Response.location.fget(self)
+        if value is not None:
+            return utils.URL(value)
+
+    @webob.Response.content_location.getter
+    def content_location(self):
+        value = webob.Response.content_location.fget(self)
+        if value is not None:
+            return utils.URL(value)
+
+    @property
+    def url(self):
+        return utils.URL(self.request.url)
diff --git a/webtest/utils.py b/webtest/utils.py
index e99df59..10c175d 100644
--- a/webtest/utils.py
+++ b/webtest/utils.py
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
+import functools
 import re
 from json import dumps
+import urllib.parse
+
+import webob
 
 from webtest.compat import urlencode
 
@@ -167,3 +171,167 @@ def getheaders(self, header):
     def get_all(self, headers, default):  # NOQA
         # This is undocumented method that Python 3 cookielib uses
         return self._response.headers.getall(headers)
+
+
+class URLMismatch:
+    def __init__(self, message):
+        self.messages = message if isinstance(message, list) else [message]
+
+    def __bool__(self):
+        return not bool(self.messages)
+
+    def __repr__(self):
+        return '\n'.join(self.messages)
+
+
+class URL(str):
+    '''
+       string subclass with methods to extract or test parts of the URL
+       structure.
+    '''
+
+    @functools.cached_property
+    def request(self):
+        '''Returns a :class:`webob.BaseRequest` object corresponding to this URL.'''
+        parsed = urllib.parse.urlparse(self)
+        request = webob.Request.blank(self)
+        # XXX: webob force the http: scheme if parsed.scheme is absent XXX:
+        # webob does not understand //{host}/ it interprets it as if //{host}/
+        # is a path
+        if not parsed.scheme:
+            request.environ['PATH_INFO'] = parsed.path
+            request.environ['HTTP_HOST'] = parsed.netloc
+            request.environ['wsgi.url_scheme'] = None
+        return request
+
+    def __getattr__(self, attr):
+        return getattr(self.request, attr)
+
+    def join(self, other):
+        '''Apply :meth:`urllib.parse.urljoin` and returns a new URL object.'''
+        return URL(
+            urllib.parse.urljoin(str(self), str(other) if other else ''))
+
+    @property
+    def netloc(self):
+        '''netloc (host + port) of the URL.'''
+        return urllib.parse.urlparse(self).netloc
+
+    @property
+    def host_url(self):
+        '''returns :attr:`webob.BaseRequest.host_url` of the equivalent request.'''
+        return URL(self.request.host_url)
+
+    @property
+    def path(self):
+        '''returns :attr:`webob.BaseRequest.path` of the equivalent request.'''
+        return URL(self.request.path)
+
+    @property
+    def path_url(self):
+        '''returns :attr:`webob.BaseRequest.path_url` of the equivalent request.'''
+        return URL(self.request.path_url)
+
+    @property
+    def path_qs(self):
+        '''returns :attr:`webob.BaseRequest.path_qs` of the equivalent request.'''
+        return URL(self.request.path_qs)
+
+    def __repr__(self):
+        return f'<{self.__class__.__name__} {str(self)!r}>'
+
+    def match(self, other, strict=True):
+        '''
+           Returns True if `self` matches the `other` URL given as a string or
+           an URL object.
+
+           * scheme, netloc and path must be equal or missing
+           * `/*/` can be used as a wildcard path
+
+             >>> assert URL('https://example.com/foor/bar').match('https://example.com/*/')
+
+           * in the query string, parameters must matches:
+
+             >>> assert URL('//example.com/?foo=bar&bar=foo').loose_match('//example.com/?foo=bar')
+
+           * but a parameter whose name starts with `!` must be absent (useful
+             mainly for `loose_match()`)
+
+             >>> assert URL('?foo=bar').loose_match('?!bar')
+
+           * but a paramter whose value is `?` must have only one non empty
+             value.
+
+             >>> assert not URL('?foo=bar&foo=foo').match('https://example.com/?foo=?')
+
+           * but a parameter whose value is `*` acccept any number of value or
+             none, it's the wildcard match,
+
+             >>> assert URL('?foo=bar&foo=foo').match('?foo=*')
+        '''
+        return self._match(other, strict=True)
+
+    def loose_match(self, other):
+        '''
+            Match loosely against another URL. It's like `match()` but if a part of
+            the URL is missing it will not returns False.
+        '''
+        return self._match(other, strict=False)
+
+
+    def _match(self, other, strict=True):
+        if not isinstance(other, URL):
+            other = URL(other)
+        errors = []
+        if (strict or other.scheme) and other.scheme != self.scheme:
+            errors.append(f'scheme differs {self.scheme} != {other.scheme}')
+        if (strict or other.netloc) and self.netloc != other.netloc:
+            errors.append(f'netloc differs {self.netloc} != {other.netloc}')
+        if ((strict or other.path) and other.path != '/*/'
+                and other.path != self.path):
+            errors.append(f'path differs {self.path} != {other.path}')
+        expected = set()
+        if other.params:
+            for key, value in other.params.items():
+                # &!key forbids key in query string
+                if key.startswith('!'):
+                    if key[1:] in self.params:
+                        qs = urllib.parse.urlencode(
+                            [(key[1:], v) for v in self.params.getall(key[1:])])
+                        errors.append(
+                            f'{key[1:]} should be absent, but ?{qs} found.')
+                elif value == '?':
+                    values = self.params.getall(key)
+                    if len(values) == 0 or (len(values) == 1 and not values[0]):
+                        errors.append(
+                            f'{key} should have only one value but is absent.')
+                    elif len(values) > 1:
+                        qs = urllib.parse.urlencode(
+                            [(key, v) for v in self.params.getall(key)])
+                        errors.append(
+                            f'{key} should have only one value but ?{qs}'
+                            ' found.')
+                    else:
+                        expected.add((key, self.params[key]))
+                elif value == '*':
+                    for v in self.params.getall(key):
+                        expected.add((key, v))
+                else:
+                    if key not in self.params:
+                        errors.append(
+                            f'{key} should have value {value!r} but is absent.')
+                    elif value not in self.params.getall(key):
+                        qs = urllib.parse.urlencode(
+                            [(key, v) for v in self.params.getall(key)])
+                        errors.append(
+                            f'{key} should have value {value!r} but'
+                            f' ?{qs} found.')
+                    else:
+                        expected.add((key, value))
+
+        if strict:
+            for key, value in self.params.items():
+                if (key, value) not in expected:
+                    errors.append(f'?{key}={value} was not expected.')
+
+        return URLMismatch(errors)