[Catalyst] Testing against local but 'external' server?

[Andy Grundman]

On Oct 9, 2008, at 4:13 PM, Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
>
> That is, if I want to test my Catalyst app against a real
> server (for example, if I have server configuration settings
> in an httpd.conf file, or some other reason why I need to test
> my app against Apache instead of a Perl HTTP object), but I
> want to do so on my local machine, how do I do it? I see from
> the Catalyst::Test source that CATALYST_SERVER will override
> the use of the HTTP object, but I can't quite follow what
> T::W::M::Cat is doing. I'd like to be able to point to
> http://localhost/myapp but have this be regarded as a remote
> address that does use the server.
>
> Thanks. I'd offer to fix the docs myself, but this isn't in
> the Catalyst repo....there are minor typos, too.

Since TWMC uses Catalyst::Test, I believe that yes, you can set  
CATALYST_SERVER to a localhost URL.