--- /dev/null
+#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
+#
+# Check POST via HTTP.
+#
+
+print "1..2\n";
+
+require "net/config.pl";
+require LWP::Protocol::http;
+require LWP::UserAgent;
+
+$netloc = $net::httpserver;
+$script = $net::cgidir . "/test";
+
+my $ua = new LWP::UserAgent; # create a useragent to test
+
+$url = new URI::URL("http://$netloc$script");
+
+my $form = 'searchtype=Substring';
+
+my $request = new HTTP::Request('POST', $url, undef, $form);
+$request->header('Content-Type', 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded');
+
+my $response = $ua->request($request, undef, undef);
+
+my $str = $response->as_string;
+
+print "$str\n";
+
+if ($response->is_success and $str =~ /^REQUEST_METHOD=POST$/m) {
+ print "ok 1\n";
+}
+else {
+ print "not ok 1\n";
+}
+
+if ($str =~ /^CONTENT_LENGTH=(\d+)$/m && $1 == length($form)) {
+ print "ok 2\n";
+}
+else {
+ print "not ok 2\n";
+}
+
+# avoid -w warning
+$dummy = $net::httpserver;
+$dummy = $net::cgidir;