--- a/Lib/urllib/request.py	Wed Jul 27 01:22:41 2011 +0200
+++ b/Lib/urllib/request.py	Tue Jul 26 16:53:54 2011 -0700
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@
 class Request:
 
     def __init__(self, url, data=None, headers={},
-                 origin_req_host=None, unverifiable=False):
+                 origin_req_host=None, unverifiable=False, method=None):
         # unwrap('<URL:type://host/path>') --> 'type://host/path'
         self.full_url = unwrap(url)
         self.full_url, self.fragment = splittag(self.full_url)
@@ -192,6 +192,7 @@
         self.origin_req_host = origin_req_host
         self.unverifiable = unverifiable
         self._parse()
+        self._method = method
 
     def _parse(self):
         self.type, rest = splittype(self.full_url)
@@ -202,10 +203,10 @@
             self.host = unquote(self.host)
 
     def get_method(self):
-        if self.data is not None:
-            return "POST"
-        else:
-            return "GET"
+        if self._method:
+            return self._method
+
+        return "GET" if self.data is None else "POST"
 
     # Begin deprecated methods