Source: liblwp-online-perl Section: perl Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 8) Build-Depends-Indep: perl, liburi-perl, libwww-perl Maintainer: Debian Perl Group Uploaders: Antonio Radici Standards-Version: 3.9.2 Homepage: http://search.cpan.org/dist/LWP-Online/ Vcs-Svn: svn://svn.debian.org/pkg-perl/trunk/liblwp-online-perl/ Vcs-Browser: http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/pkg-perl/trunk/liblwp-online-perl/ Package: liblwp-online-perl Architecture: all Depends: ${perl:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, liburi-perl, libwww-perl Description: module to check if there is Internet access LWP::Online will try to verify, as accurately as it can, if the host has any Internet access: it will check if there is basic network access, DNS connectivity and it will also check whether one from a whole set of transport (HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and so on) is actually available. . The exported 'online' function can also be used by other modules to skip the tests which require Internet connectivity.