def make_request_helper(self, started_event):
"""Helper method to make a request to the WSGI application in a subprocess."""
# Let the operator know that we're about to make the HTTP request.
logger.info("Making HTTP request to %s virtual host ..", self.name)
# Let the parent process know we're ready to make the HTTP request.
started_event.set()
# Finally here's everything we wanted to do: It's a one liner :-P.
urlopen(Request(self.manager.listen_addresses[0].url, None, dict(Host=self.name))).read()
