in reply to Need slow web client
1. LWP::UserAgent with :content_cb and put a sleep in there or something.
2. HTTP::Proxy::BodyFilter::simple and put a sleep in there or something. This is going to be useful for testing other aspects of your proxy, too, as you can tamper with many more aspects of the HTTP request/response pair.
edit: added LWP
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