I've been using something like this to dump raw transactions into the network, feel free to adapt to your language of choice if you want something that runs locally. I don't have anything like it running on a public web server but it shouldn't be too hard to do.
#!/usr/bin/perl
use IO::Socket;use IO::Select;use Digest::SHA;
$tx=shift(@ARGV);
$btc=IO::Socket::INET->new(PeerAddr=>"localhost",PeerPort=>'8333',Proto=>'tcp') or die "Socket";
$port="\x20\x8d";$magic="\xf9\xbe\xb4\xd9";$mmatch="f9.be.b4.d9";
$sel=IO::Select->new();$sel->add($btc);
$p="\x2c\x7e\x00\x00"; # Version
$p.="\x01\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00"; # Services
$h=sprintf('%x',time());while(length($h)<16){$h="0".$h;}
$h=reverse($h);$p.=pack('h*',$h); # Unix Timestamp
$p.="\x01\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\xFF\xFF"; # To IP
$p.="\x7f\x00\x00\x01".$port; # 127.0.0.1:port
$p.="\x01\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\xFF\xFF"; # From IP
$p.="\x00\x00\x00\x00".$port; # 0.0.0.0:port
@chars=('a'..'f', 0..9);$rr=join '',map {$chars[rand @chars]} 1..16;
$p.=pack('H*',$rr); # Random Unique ID
$p.="\x00"; # No User Agent
$p.="\x00\x00\x00\x00"; # No Blocks
sendpacket('version',$p);
while($gotver==0){
($c,$p)=readpacket();
if($c eq 'version'){$gotver=1;}
sleep(1);}
sendpacket('verack','');
$tt=pack('H*',$tx);
$h=Digest::SHA::sha256(Digest::SHA::sha256($tt));
$p="\x01\x01\x00\x00\x00".pack('H*',reverse(unpack('h*',$h)));
sendpacket('inv',$p);$gotreq=0;
while($gotreq==0){
($c,$pp)=readpacket();
if($c eq 'getdata' && $p eq $pp){$gotreq=1;}
sleep(1);}
sendpacket('tx',$tt);
print "Sent transaction ".unpack('H*',$h)."\n";
close($btc);
sub sendpacket{my $c=shift(@_);my $p=shift(@_);
my $o=$magic;while(length($c)<12){$c.="\x00";}$o.=$c; #Command
my $h=sprintf('%x',length($p));while(length($h)<8){$h="0".$h;}
$h=reverse($h);$o.=pack('h*',$h); # Payload length
$h=Digest::SHA::sha256(Digest::SHA::sha256($p));
$h=unpack('H*',$h);$o.=pack('H*',substr($h,0,8)); # Checksum
$o.=$p; # Payload
print $btc $o;print STDERR "Sent $c (".length($p)." byte payload)\n";
}
sub readpacket{
if(!$sel->can_read(1)){return 0;}
my @x;my $x;while(1){read($btc,$x,1);$x=unpack('H*',$x);
push(@x,$x);if($#x>3){shift(@x);}
if(join('.',@x) eq $mmatch){
my $cmd;my $len;
read($btc,$cmd,12);read($btc,$len,4);read($btc,$x,4);
$x=unpack('h*',$len);$x=reverse($x);$len=hex($x);
$x=chop($cmd);while($x eq "\x00"){$x=chop($cmd);}$cmd.=$x;
print STDERR "Read $cmd ($len byte payload)\n";
if($len>0){read($btc,$x,$len);return ($cmd,$x);}
else{return ($cmd,'');}
}
}
}