---
name: "Plack::Test::ExternalServer"
section: "3pm"
platform: "linux"
package: "libplack-test-externalserver-perl"
version: "0.02-3"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/Plack::Test::ExternalServer"
---

# Plack::Test::ExternalServer(3pm)

Run HTTP tests on external live servers

## NAME

Plack::Test::ExternalServer - Run HTTP tests on external live servers

## VERSION

version 0.02

## SYNOPSIS

```
    $ PLACK_TEST_IMPL=Plack::Test::ExternalServer \
      PLACK_TEST_EXTERNALSERVER_URI=http://myhost.example/myapp/ \
      perl my_plack_test.t
```

## DESCRIPTION

This module allows your to run your Plack::Test tests against an external server instead of just against a local application through either mocked HTTP or a locally spawned server.

See Plack::Test on how to write tests that can use this module.

## ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

- PLACK\_TEST\_EXTERNALSERVER\_URI

  The value of this variable will be used as the base uri for requests to the external server.

## SEE ALSO

Plack::Test

Plack::Test::Server

Plack::Test::MockHTTP

## AUTHOR

Florian Ragwitz \<rafl@debian.org\>

## CONTRIBUTOR

Karen Etheridge \<ether@cpan.org\>

## COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2010 by Florian Ragwitz.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.