Thanks Ilya

Actually, I started off with Test::MockObject to fake the request, but there was a lot of methods I needed to mock and that's a bit laborious. The other reason is that Apache::Request conveniently fills out all the Apache::Constants, eg, Apache::Contants::FORBIDDEN which otherwise need to be set manually as they're unavailable when running outside mod_perl.

But having tried it both ways now ;), there's really not much in it.