diff --git a/test_requests.py b/test_requests.py
index 436b8bc9..34c22bbc 100755
--- a/test_requests.py
+++ b/test_requests.py
@@ -164,6 +164,9 @@ class RequestsTestSuite(unittest.TestCase):
             
         with requests.settings(timeout=10):
             requests.get('http://google.com')
+            
+    def test_nonurlencoded_post_data(self):
+        requests.post('http://google.com', data='foo')