--- /dev/null
+#!/usr/bin/perl
+
+use strict;
+use Test::More tests => 2;
+use FindBin qw($Bin);
+use lib "$Bin/lib";
+use MemcachedTest;
+
+my $server = new_memcached();
+my $sock = $server->sock;
+my $key = "a"x251;
+
+print $sock "set a 1 0 1\r\na\r\n";
+is (scalar <$sock>, "STORED\r\n", "Stored key");
+
+print $sock "get a $key\r\n";
+is (scalar <$sock>, "CLIENT_ERROR bad command line format\r\n", "illegal key");