Net-Curl test failures on FreeBSD 9.2 (cookies related)

[eserte]

The Net-Curl testsuite fails for FreeBSD 9.2, see http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=Net-Curl;os=freebsd;reports=1
The reason is that the standard freebsd 9.2 libcurl package is compiled without cookies support. This will be fixed for future freebsd versions (see http://www.freshports.org/ftp/curl/, the Changelog entry from 06 Oct 2013 18:36:49 says "Turn COOKIES on by default"). I just rebuild libcurl from ports with COOKIES turned on manually, and since then Net-Curl passes on my machine.

Probably there should be a feature check if cookies support is activated, and depending on this some tests should be skipped?

[creaktive]

Thanks for checking this!
I thought about skipping the cookie-related tests when the cookie feature is missing. However, there's potential caveat here: the modules/scripts that depend on Net::Curl don't usually make that check! I believe it is a common practice to blindly assume that cookies are properly handled in any HTTP user agent. So, explicitly failing when cookies feature is missing is probably a good thing.
On the other side, it took me a while to figure out the origin of that error.
I am thinking about adding a new test to check the presence of the cookie feature. If it is missing, the test will fail with some reasonable message. It should be up to the user if he/she can trust the module despite the missing pieces.