On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 10:27:48AM -0600, JT Smith 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.
I don't think there is a best practice, but I have my own self contained pingtest, which seems to do the trick: https://metacpan.org/source/BARBIE/WWW-Scraper-ISBN-Amazon_Driver-0.27/t/10objectus.t See the sub at the end :) Cheers, Barbie. -- Birmingham Perl Mongers <http://birmingham.pm.org> Memoirs Of A Roadie <http://barbie.missbarbell.co.uk> CPAN Testers Blog <http://blog.cpantesters.org> YAPC Conference Surveys <http://yapc-surveys.org> Ark Appreciation Pages <http://ark.eology.org>
