--- /dev/null
+#
+# Check timeouts via HTTP.
+#
+
+print "1..1\n";
+
+require "net/config.pl";
+require HTTP::Status;
+require LWP::Protocol::http;
+require LWP::UserAgent;
+
+my $ua = new LWP::UserAgent; # create a useragent to test
+
+$ua->timeout(4);
+
+$netloc = $net::httpserver;
+$script = $net::cgidir . "/timeout";
+
+$url = new URI::URL("http://$netloc$script");
+
+my $request = new HTTP::Request('GET', $url);
+
+print $request->as_string;
+
+my $response = $ua->request($request, undef);
+
+my $str = $response->as_string;
+
+print "$str\n";
+
+if ($response->is_error and
+ $str =~ /timeout/) {
+ print "ok 1\n";
+}
+else {
+ print "nok ok 1\n";
+}
+
+# avoid -w warning
+$dummy = $net::httpserver;
+$dummy = $net::cgidir;