Httest is quite a nice tool for var­i­ous of things:

Script­able HTTP Test Tool for test­ing and bench­mark­ing web appli­ca­tion and web server devel­op­ment with­out GUI.

Spe­cial: Can act as client (request­ing) and server (back­end for reverse proxys). Pat­tern match­ing answers (both server(s)and client(s)) to test valid­ity. You are com­pletly free in what head­ers you like to send (good and bad ones) and what con­tent. Can exec­tute any shell com­mand you like and stream the stan­dard out­put back to the HTTP stream.

I cre­ated the Win­dows build, you can down­load the project file for MS Visual c++ Express:
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