Developping with Essentials requires to download a lot of data. When one starts an instance for testing, it will usually download dozens of plugins. It can be time consuming, and very time-consuming on lower bandwidths.

It would be nice if we can shorten that testing loop.

We would add an squid proxy set up between the evergreen-client and the URL where plugins are located.

Possible Issues

We likely want to:

• disable this in CI, to be closer to production conditions
• have an (easy) a way to disable or enable this locally, in case one wants for instance to check something related to low-speed bandwidth.