diff --git a/tests/runtests.pl b/tests/runtests.pl
index d905c9b7bc..298c7f60be 100755
--- a/tests/runtests.pl
+++ b/tests/runtests.pl
@@ -835,6 +835,36 @@ if($testthis[0] ne "") {
     $TESTCASES=join(" ", @testthis);
 }
 
+############################################################################
+#
+# don't let anyone think this works right now
+
+print <<EOM
+ ***************************************************************************
+
+    THIS DOES NOT WORK
+
+ ***************************************************************************
+
+ Things in curl-land have changed, but the test suite has not been fixed
+ accordingly and thus, the test suite is currently more or less useless.
+
+ *PLEASE* help us fixing this. We have to make our new test server written
+ in C work and get used instead of the perl version previously used.
+
+ The working version of the test server is found here:
+
+ http://curl.haxx.se/dev/sws-0.2.tar.gz
+   
+ If you unpack this in the tests/ directory and run the server in there, you
+ can actually get test-responses if you do like this:
+
+ \$ ./sws 8080 &
+ \$ curl localhost:8080/3
+
+EOM
+    ;
+
 
 #######################################################################
 # Output curl version and host info being tested