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
