Basic POST in place.

requests/core.py

@@ -34,10 +34,11 @@ class Request(object):
 	_METHODS = ('get', 'head', 'put', 'post', 'delete')
 	
 	def __init__(self):
+		self.url = None
 		self.headers = dict()
 		self.method = None
 		self.params = {}
-		self.data = None
+		self.data = {}
 		self.response = Response()
 		self.auth = None
 		self.sent = False
@@ -64,12 +65,7 @@ class Request(object):
 		if self.method.lower() == 'get':
 			if (not self.sent) or anyway:
 				try:
-					r = urllib.urlopen('http://kennethreitz.com')
-					self.response.headers = r.headers.dict
-					self.response.status_code = r.code
-					self.response.content =  r.read()
-					
-					success = True
+					pass
 
 				except Exception:
 					raise RequestException
@@ -98,7 +94,38 @@ class Request(object):
 		elif self.method.lower() == 'post':
 			if (not self.sent) or anyway:
 				try:
-					pass
+
+					req = urllib2.Request(self.url)
+
+					if self.headers:
+						r.headers = self.headers
+
+					# url encode form data if it's a dict
+					if isinstance(self.data, dict):
+						req.data = urllib.urlencode(self.data)
+					else:
+						req.data = self.data
+
+
+					if self.auth:
+
+						# create a password manager
+						password_mgr = urllib2.HTTPPasswordMgrWithDefaultRealm()
+
+						# Add the username and password.
+						# If we knew the realm, we could use it instead of ``None``.
+						password_mgr.add_password(None, self.url, self.auth.username, self.auth.password)
+						handler = urllib2.HTTPBasicAuthHandler(password_mgr)
+						opener = urllib2.build_opener(handler)
+
+						# use the opener to fetch a URL
+						resp = opener.open(req)
+					else:
+						resp =  urllib2.urlopen(req)
+
+					self.response.status_code = resp.code
+					self.response.headers = resp.info().dict
+					self.response.content = resp.read()
 					
 					success = True
 
@@ -162,14 +189,14 @@ def get(url, params={}, headers={}, auth=None):
 	return r.response
 
 
-def head(url, params={}, headers={}, auth=None):
+def head(url, data={}, headers={}, auth=None):
 	"""Sends a HEAD request. Returns :class:`Response` object.
 	"""
 	r = Request()
 	
 	r.method = 'HEAD'
 	# return response object
-	
+	r.data = data
 	r.headers = headers
 	r.auth = _detect_auth(url, auth)
 	
@@ -178,13 +205,14 @@ def head(url, params={}, headers={}, auth=None):
 	return r.response
 
 
-def post(url, params={}, headers={}, auth=None):
+def post(url, data={}, headers={}, auth=None):
 	"""Sends a POST request. Returns :class:`Response` object.
 	"""
 	r = Request()
-	
+
+	r.url = url
 	r.method = 'POST'
-	# return response object
+	r.data = data
 	
 	r.headers = headers
 	r.auth = _detect_auth(url, auth)
@@ -255,4 +283,3 @@ class URLRequired(RequestException):
 	
 class InvalidMethod(RequestException):
 	"""An inappropriate method was attempted."""
-