diff --git a/tests/data/Makefile.am b/tests/data/Makefile.am
index ee6a82a3b..67c31a896 100644
--- a/tests/data/Makefile.am
+++ b/tests/data/Makefile.am
@@ -93,6 +93,7 @@ test1379 test1380 test1381 test1382 test1383 test1384 test1385 test1386 \
 test1387 test1388 test1389 test1390 test1391 test1392 test1393 \
 test1400 test1401 test1402 test1403 test1404 test1405 test1406 test1407 \
 test1408 test1409 test1410 \
+test1500 \
 test2000 test2001 test2002 test2003 test2004 test2005 test2006 test2007 \
 test2008 test2009 test2010 test2011 test2012 test2013 test2014 test2015 \
 test2016 test2017 test2018 test2019 test2020 test2021 test2022 \
diff --git a/tests/data/test1500 b/tests/data/test1500
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0a5919ca8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/data/test1500
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+<testcase>
+<info>
+<keywords>
+HTTP
+HTTP GET
+multi
+</keywords>
+</info>
+
+# Server-side
+<reply>
+<data>
+HTTP/1.1 200 all good!
+Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2010 14:49:00 GMT
+Server: test-server/fake
+Content-Type: text/html
+Content-Length: 12
+Connection: close
+
+Hello World
+</data>
+</reply>
+
+# Client-side
+<client>
+<server>
+http
+</server>
+<features>
+http
+</features>
+# tool is what to use instead of 'curl'
+<tool>
+lib1500
+</tool>
+
+ <name>
+curl_multi_wait
+ </name>
+ <command>
+http://%HOSTIP:%HTTPPORT/1500
+</command>
+</client>
+</testcase>
diff --git a/tests/libtest/.gitignore b/tests/libtest/.gitignore
index 0a19470ab..80be891d6 100644
--- a/tests/libtest/.gitignore
+++ b/tests/libtest/.gitignore
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 chkhostname
 lib5[0-9][0-9]
+lib1500
 libauthretry
 libntlmconnect
diff --git a/tests/libtest/Makefile.inc b/tests/libtest/Makefile.inc
index 01594b8c9..fa0c69cb5 100644
--- a/tests/libtest/Makefile.inc
+++ b/tests/libtest/Makefile.inc
@@ -19,7 +19,8 @@ noinst_PROGRAMS = chkhostname \
   lib543 lib544 lib545 lib547 lib548 lib549 lib552 lib553 lib554 lib555	\
   lib556 lib539 lib557 lib560 lib562 lib564 lib565 lib566 lib567 lib568	\
   lib569 lib570 lib571 lib572 lib573 lib582 lib583 lib585 lib586 lib587 \
-  lib590 lib591 lib597 lib598 lib599 libauthretry libntlmconnect
+  lib590 lib591 lib597 lib598 lib599 libauthretry libntlmconnect \
+  lib1500
 
 chkhostname_SOURCES = chkhostname.c $(top_srcdir)/lib/curl_gethostname.c
 chkhostname_LDADD = @CURL_NETWORK_LIBS@
@@ -186,6 +187,8 @@ lib598_SOURCES = lib598.c $(SUPPORTFILES)
 
 lib599_SOURCES = lib599.c $(SUPPORTFILES)
 
+lib1500_SOURCES = lib1500.c $(SUPPORTFILES) $(TESTUTIL)
+
 libauthretry_SOURCES = libauthretry.c $(SUPPORTFILES)
 
 libntlmconnect_SOURCES = libntlmconnect.c $(SUPPORTFILES) $(TESTUTIL)
diff --git a/tests/libtest/lib1500.c b/tests/libtest/lib1500.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c36545c52
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/libtest/lib1500.c
@@ -0,0 +1,89 @@
+/***************************************************************************
+ *                                  _   _ ____  _
+ *  Project                     ___| | | |  _ \| |
+ *                             / __| | | | |_) | |
+ *                            | (__| |_| |  _ <| |___
+ *                             \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2011, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
+ *
+ * This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which
+ * you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms
+ * are also available at http://curl.haxx.se/docs/copyright.html.
+ *
+ * You may opt to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute and/or sell
+ * copies of the Software, and permit persons to whom the Software is
+ * furnished to do so, under the terms of the COPYING file.
+ *
+ * This software is distributed on an "AS IS" basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.
+ *
+ ***************************************************************************/
+#include "test.h"
+
+#include "testutil.h"
+#include "warnless.h"
+#include "memdebug.h"
+
+#define TEST_HANG_TIMEOUT 60 * 1000
+
+int test(char *URL)
+{
+  CURL* curls = NULL;
+  CURLM* multi = NULL;
+  int still_running;
+  int i = -1;
+  int res = 0;
+  CURLMsg *msg;
+
+  start_test_timing();
+
+  global_init(CURL_GLOBAL_ALL);
+
+  multi_init(multi);
+
+  easy_init(curls);
+
+  easy_setopt(curls, CURLOPT_URL, URL);
+  easy_setopt(curls, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1L);
+
+  multi_add_handle(multi, curls);
+
+  multi_perform(multi, &still_running);
+
+  abort_on_test_timeout();
+
+  while(still_running) {
+    res = curl_multi_wait(multi, NULL, 0, TEST_HANG_TIMEOUT);
+    if (res != CURLM_OK) {
+      printf("curl_multi_wait() returned %d\n", res);
+      res = -1;
+      goto test_cleanup;
+    }
+
+    abort_on_test_timeout();
+
+    multi_perform(multi, &still_running);
+
+    abort_on_test_timeout();
+  }
+
+  msg = curl_multi_info_read(multi, &still_running);
+  if(msg)
+    /* this should now contain a result code from the easy handle,
+       get it */
+    i = msg->data.result;
+
+test_cleanup:
+
+  /* undocumented cleanup sequence - type UA */
+
+  curl_multi_cleanup(multi);
+  curl_easy_cleanup(curls);
+  curl_global_cleanup();
+
+  if(res)
+    i = res;
+
+  return i; /* return the final return code */
+}