Add URI-string support for Net::HTTP.post and Net::HTTP.post_form

lib/net/http.rb

@@ -74,13 +74,13 @@ class HTTPHeaderSyntaxError < StandardError; end
   #
   # === POST
   #
-  #   uri = URI('http://www.example.com/search.cgi')
+  #   uri = 'http://www.example.com/search.cgi'
   #   res = Net::HTTP.post_form(uri, 'q' => 'ruby', 'max' => '50')
   #   puts res.body
   #
   # === POST with Multiple Values
   #
-  #   uri = URI('http://www.example.com/search.cgi')
+  #   uri = 'http://www.example.com/search.cgi'
   #   res = Net::HTTP.post_form(uri, 'q' => ['ruby', 'perl'], 'max' => '50')
   #   puts res.body
   #
@@ -497,25 +497,26 @@ def HTTP.get_response(uri_or_host, path_or_headers = nil, port = nil, &block)
       end
     end
 
-    # Posts data to the specified URI object.
+    # Posts data to the specified URI.
     #
     # Example:
     #
     #   require 'net/http'
     #   require 'uri'
     #
-    #   Net::HTTP.post URI('http://www.example.com/api/search'),
+    #   Net::HTTP.post 'http://www.example.com/api/search',
     #                  { "q" => "ruby", "max" => "50" }.to_json,
     #                  "Content-Type" => "application/json"
     #
     def HTTP.post(url, data, header = nil)
+      url = URI(url) if url.is_a?(String)
       start(url.hostname, url.port,
             :use_ssl => url.scheme == 'https' ) {|http|
         http.post(url, data, header)
       }
     end
 
-    # Posts HTML form data to the specified URI object.
+    # Posts HTML form data to the specified URI.
     # The form data must be provided as a Hash mapping from String to String.
     # Example:
     #
@@ -529,10 +530,11 @@ def HTTP.post(url, data, header = nil)
     #
     #   require 'net/http'
     #
-    #   Net::HTTP.post_form URI('http://www.example.com/search.cgi'),
+    #   Net::HTTP.post_form 'http://www.example.com/search.cgi',
     #                       { "q" => "ruby", "max" => "50" }
     #
     def HTTP.post_form(url, params)
+      url = URI(url) if url.is_a?(String)
       req = Post.new(url)
       req.form_data = params
       req.basic_auth url.user, url.password if url.user

test/net/http/test_http.rb

@@ -509,7 +509,26 @@ def _test_post__no_data(http)
     end
   end
 
-  def test_s_post
+  def test_s_post_with_uri_string
+    url = "http://#{config('host')}:#{config('port')}/?q=a"
+    res = assert_warning(/Content-Type did not set/) do
+      Net::HTTP.post(
+              url,
+              "a=x")
+    end
+    assert_equal "application/x-www-form-urlencoded", res["Content-Type"]
+    assert_equal "a=x", res.body
+    assert_equal url, res["X-request-uri"]
+
+    res = Net::HTTP.post(
+              url,
+              "hello world",
+              "Content-Type" => "text/plain; charset=US-ASCII")
+    assert_equal "text/plain; charset=US-ASCII", res["Content-Type"]
+    assert_equal "hello world", res.body
+  end
+
+  def test_s_post_with_uri
     url = "http://#{config('host')}:#{config('port')}/?q=a"
     res = assert_warning(/Content-Type did not set/) do
       Net::HTTP.post(
@@ -528,7 +547,34 @@ def test_s_post
     assert_equal "hello world", res.body
   end
 
-  def test_s_post_form
+  def test_s_post_form_with_uri_string
+    url = "http://#{config('host')}:#{config('port')}/"
+    res = Net::HTTP.post_form(
+              url,
+              "a" => "x")
+    assert_equal ["a=x"], res.body.split(/[;&]/).sort
+
+    res = Net::HTTP.post_form(
+              url,
+              "a" => "x",
+              "b" => "y")
+    assert_equal ["a=x", "b=y"], res.body.split(/[;&]/).sort
+
+    res = Net::HTTP.post_form(
+              url,
+              "a" => ["x1", "x2"],
+              "b" => "y")
+    assert_equal url, res['X-request-uri']
+    assert_equal ["a=x1", "a=x2", "b=y"], res.body.split(/[;&]/).sort
+
+    res = Net::HTTP.post_form(
+              url + '?a=x',
+              "b" => "y")
+    assert_equal url + '?a=x', res['X-request-uri']
+    assert_equal ["b=y"], res.body.split(/[;&]/).sort
+  end
+
+  def test_s_post_form_with_uri
     url = "http://#{config('host')}:#{config('port')}/"
     res = Net::HTTP.post_form(
               URI.parse(url),