PATCH: Using "plain" content for ->post method

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diff -up 'libwww-perl-5.805/lib/HTTP/Request/Common.pm' '/home/slavenr/tmp/new.libwww-perl-5.805/lib/HTTP/Request/Common.pm'
Index: ./lib/HTTP/Request/Common.pm
Prereq:  1.26 
--- ./lib/HTTP/Request/Common.pm	Mon Nov 15 15:52:37 2004
+++ ./lib/HTTP/Request/Common.pm	Wed Dec 14 16:43:39 2005
@@ -76,12 +76,17 @@ sub POST
 	    $ct = HTTP::Headers::Util::join_header_words(@v);
 	}
 	else {
-	    # We use a temporary URI object to format
-	    # the application/x-www-form-urlencoded content.
-	    require URI;
-	    my $url = URI->new('http:');
-	    $url->query_form(ref($content) eq "HASH" ? %$content : @$content);
-	    $content = $url->query;
+	    if (ref($content) eq 'SCALAR') {
+		$content = $$content;
+	    }
+	    else {
+		# We use a temporary URI object to format
+		# the application/x-www-form-urlencoded content.
+		require URI;
+		my $url = URI->new('http:');
+		$url->query_form(ref($content) eq "HASH" ? %$content : @$content);
+		$content = $url->query;
+	    }
 	}
     }
 
@@ -352,7 +357,7 @@ Like GET() but the method in the request
 =item POST $url, Header => Value,..., Content => $form_ref
 
 This works mostly like GET() with "POST" as the method, but this function
-also takes a second optional array or hash reference parameter
+also takes a second optional array, hash, or scalar reference parameter
 ($form_ref).  This argument can be used to pass key/value pairs for
 the form content.  By default we will initialize a request using the
 C<application/x-www-form-urlencoded> content type.  This means that
@@ -457,6 +462,9 @@ applications) like this.  Also, if the f
 the time the Content-Length is calculated and the time that the last
 chunk is delivered, the subroutine will C<Croak>.
 
+If $form_ref is a SCALAR reference, then the POST content is set to
+the dereferenced value of $form_ref.
+
 The post(...)  method of "LWP::UserAgent" exists as a shortcut for
 $ua->request(POST ...).
 
diff -up 'libwww-perl-5.805/t/local/http-get.t' '/home/slavenr/tmp/new.libwww-perl-5.805/t/local/http-get.t'
Index: ./t/local/http-get.t
--- ./t/local/http-get.t	Mon Nov 15 12:37:15 2004
+++ ./t/local/http-get.t	Wed Dec 14 16:44:22 2005
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ else {
     open(DAEMON, "$perl local/http-get.t daemon |") or die "Can't exec daemon: $!";
 }
 
-print "1..20\n";
+print "1..21\n";
 
 
 my $greeting = <DAEMON>;
@@ -384,6 +384,28 @@ print "ok 19\n";		
 
 }
 
+{
+
+my $content;
+
+$res = $ua->post(
+  url("/echo/foo", $base),
+    \"Plain Text",
+  'Content-Type'    => 'text/plain',
+  ':content_cb'     => sub { $content .= $_[0]; return; },
+);
+
+$_ = $content;
+print "not " unless $res->is_success
+                and /^Content-Length:\s*10$/mi
+		and /^Content-Type:\s*text\/plain$/mi
+		and /^Plain Text$/m
+		and ! $res->content
+;
+print "ok 20\n";		
+
+}
+
 #----------------------------------------------------------------
 print "#------------Testing: Terminating server...\n";
 sub httpd_get_quit
@@ -396,5 +418,5 @@ sub httpd_get_quit
 $res = $ua->get( url("/quit", $base) );
 
 print "not " unless $res->code == 503 and $res->content =~ /Bye, bye/;
-print "ok 20\n";
+print "ok 21\n";
 
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