Close #15 PR: Implement body option.

index.js

@@ -22,6 +22,13 @@ module.exports = function (url, opts, cb) {
 	var encoding = opts.encoding;
 	delete opts.encoding;
 
+	var body = opts.body;
+	delete opts.body;
+
+	if (body && opts.method === undefined) {
+		opts.method = 'POST';
+	}
+
 	// returns a proxy stream to the response
 	// if no callback has been provided
 	var proxy;
@@ -47,7 +54,7 @@ module.exports = function (url, opts, cb) {
 		var fn = parsedUrl.protocol === 'https:' ? https : http;
 		var arg = assign({}, parsedUrl, opts);
 
-		var req = fn.get(arg, function (response) {
+		var req = fn.request(arg, function (response) {
 			var statusCode = response.statusCode;
 			var res = response;
 
@@ -89,6 +96,14 @@ module.exports = function (url, opts, cb) {
 		if (opts.timeout) {
 			timeout(req, opts.timeout);
 		}
+
+		if (!body) {
+			req.end();
+			return;
+		}
+
+		req.write(body);
+		req.end();
 	};
 
 	get(url, opts, cb);

readme.md

@@ -57,6 +57,12 @@ Default: `'utf8'`
 
 Encoding to be used on `setEncoding` of the response data. If null, the body is returned as a Buffer.
 
+##### options.body
+
+Type: `string`, `Buffer`  
+
+Body, that will be sent with `POST` request. If present in `options` and `options.method` is not set - `options.method` will be set to `POST`.
+
 ##### options.timeout
 
 Type: `number`

test.js

@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
+/* global describe, it, before, after */
+
 'use strict';
+
 var assert = require('assert');
 var got = require('./');
+var http = require('http');
 
 it('should do HTTP request', function (done) {
 	got('http://google.com', function (err, data) {
@@ -99,3 +103,34 @@ it('should support timeout option', function (done) {
 		done();
 	});
 });
+
+describe('with POST ', function () {
+	var server;
+
+	before(function (done) {
+		server = http.createServer(function (req, res) {
+			req.pipe(res);
+		});
+		server.listen(8081, done);
+	});
+
+	after(function (done) {
+		server.close(done);
+	});
+
+	it('should support string as body option', function (done) {
+		got('http://0.0.0.0:8081', { body: 'string' }, function (err, data) {
+			assert.ifError(err);
+			assert.equal(data, 'string');
+			done();
+		});
+	});
+
+	it('should support Buffer as body option', function (done) {
+		got('http://0.0.0.0:8081', { body: new Buffer('string') }, function (err, data) {
+			assert.ifError(err);
+			assert.equal(data, 'string');
+			done();
+		});
+	});
+});