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diff --git a/gnu/packages/web.scm b/gnu/packages/web.scm
index 0e6b95e599..686659ad78 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/web.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/web.scm
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 ;;; Copyright © 2017 Thomas Danckaert <post@thomasdanckaert.be>
 ;;; Copyright © 2017 Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
 ;;; Copyright © 2017 Kei Kebreau <kkebreau@posteo.net>
+;;; Copyright © 2017 Petter <petter@mykolab.ch>
 ;;;
 ;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
 ;;;
@@ -2891,6 +2892,35 @@ contains modules that are of more general use and even classes that
 help you implement simple HTTP servers.")
     (home-page "http://search.cpan.org/dist/libwww-perl/")))
 
+(define-public perl-lwp-online
+  (package
+    (name "perl-lwp-online")
+    (version "1.08")
+    (source
+     (origin
+       (method url-fetch)
+       (uri (string-append
+             "mirror://cpan/authors/id/A/AD/ADAMK/LWP-Online-"
+             version ".tar.gz"))
+       (sha256
+        (base32
+         "176f6vbk1018i0y7xj9d406ndbjgwzan2j9nihxnsahzg2vr2vz2"))))
+    (build-system perl-build-system)
+    (propagated-inputs
+     `(("perl-libwww" ,perl-libwww)
+       ("perl-uri" ,perl-uri)))
+    (native-inputs
+     `(("perl-module-install" ,perl-module-install)))
+    (home-page "http://search.cpan.org/dist/LWP-Online/")
+    (synopsis "Checks whether your process has access to the web")
+    (description "This module attempts to answer, as accurately as it can, one
+of the nastiest technical questions there is: am I on the internet?
+
+A host of networking and security issues make this problem very difficult.
+There are firewalls, proxies (both well behaved and badly behaved).  We might
+not have DNS.  We might not have a network card at all!")
+    (license l:perl-license)))
+
 (define-public perl-lwp-mediatypes
   (package
     (name "perl-lwp-mediatypes")