sub _make_request {
    my ($self,$request,@rest) = @_;

	# fake a proxy
	$self->proxy( [ undef ] );


    my $uri = $request->uri->as_string;
    my $response_content = "foobar\n";

    # we'll probably have to build in support for redirects at some point
    my $response = HTTP::Response->new(
        defined $response_content ? RC_OK : RC_NOT_FOUND,
    );
    $response->request($request);
    $response->push_header('Content-Type', 'text/html');
    $response->content($response_content);
    return $response;

}