Testing an HTTPS (over HTTP CONECT) proxy

Folks,

Fed up with not being able to install racket (or generally use raco) from behind
a firewall, I have a PR https://github.com/racket/racket/pull/1411 open which allows
me to use HTTPS over an HTTP CONNECT (e.g. squid) proxy.

I need to document and test my changes.

Documentation is a straightforward enough exercise.

However, I’m a bit stuck with testing. I have a new clone of tim-brown/racket
and a `make` is building, DOWNLOADING and INSTALLING the packages. The capitals
are because I am so excited! So, as far as I can tell: it “works for me”.

I guess that isn’t what most engineers would call a test-suite, however.
Since the code deals with proxy servers -- which are an installation-specific
thing. I can write tests like the ones in pkgs/net-test/tests/net/url.rkt -- which
test parsing proxy server names. But there is nothing to make sure that proxying
connections works.

I was wondering if anyone has suggestions for writing tests for this.

Tim

PS: The make is no longer building.
    It is fully builded!

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