--- /dev/null
+#!perl -w
+
+# This program check if we are able to talk to ourself. Misconfigured
+# systems that can't talk to their own 'hostname' was the most commonly
+# reported libwww-failure.
+
+use strict;
+require IO::Socket;
+
+if (@ARGV >= 2 && $ARGV[0] eq "--port") {
+ my $port = $ARGV[1];
+ require Sys::Hostname;
+ my $host = Sys::Hostname::hostname();
+ if (my $socket = IO::Socket::INET->new(PeerAddr => "$host:$port", Timeout => 5)) {
+ require IO::Select;
+ if (IO::Select->new($socket)->can_read(1)) {
+ my($n, $buf);
+ if ($n = sysread($socket, $buf, 512)) {
+ exit if $buf eq "Hi there!\n";
+ die "Seems to be talking to the wrong server at $host:$port, got \"$buf\"\n";
+ }
+ elsif (defined $n) {
+ die "Immediate EOF from server at $host:$port\n";
+ }
+ else {
+ die "Can't read from server at $host:$port: $!";
+ }
+ }
+ die "No response from server at $host:$port\n";
+ }
+ die "Can't connect: $@\n";
+}
+
+# server code
+my $socket = IO::Socket::INET->new(Listen => 1, Timeout => 5);
+my $port = $socket->sockport;
+open(CLIENT, qq("$^X" "$0" --port $port |)) || die "Can't run $^X $0: $!\n";
+
+if (my $client = $socket->accept) {
+ print $client "Hi there!\n";
+ close($client) || die "Can't close socket: $!";
+}
+else {
+ warn "Test server timeout\n";
+}
+
+exit if close(CLIENT);
+die "Can't wait for client: $!" if $!;
+die "The can-we-talk-to-ourself test failed.\n";