Thanks. I'll give that a try. On Nov 19, 2012, at 10:34 AM, Michiel Beijen wrote:
> Hi JT, > > On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 5:27 PM, JT Smith <j...@plainblack.com> wrote: >> Is there are best practice for testing whether or not the CPAN testers >> server has public internet access? I have a module that passes on a bunch of >> operating systems and Perl versions, and fails on others. The only thing I >> can think might be wrong would be that many of the tests rely on access to a >> web service, and maybe that web service isn't allowed to be called from >> those boxes. > > What module do you use to connect to the web service? > LWP has $ua->is_online > > but it might be the best is to call the web service URL and if you get > back anything else then HTTP 200 to skip the test, preferably with the > HTTP result in the message. This way you have the tests not failing > even if for instance web access is not allowed or there is no proxy > configured. > -- > Michiel
