phingofficial/phing — pull request #228 by tsphethean (2013-08-05 07:01:29+00:00)
Title: Enable HttpRequesTask to make POST requests

This PR allows the HTTP method to be set as POST (rather than the default GET) and for post parameters to be added as per the documentation of HTTP_Request2 at http://pear.php.net/manual/en/package.http.http-request2.request.php

An example of how an http-request task could now look:

Future patches could add support for other HTTP methods.