Allow the `data' argument to put() etc. to be a File

[julik]

Allow a simpler way to set a Ruby File object as data argument for performing uploads. This is majorly useful for endpoints that accept verbatim uploads without multipart wrapping. Next step is getting rid of the filename multi-args, but I think it is better to do in 2.0 once we can cut 1.0 because it will have us revamp APIs ;-)

[julik]

BTW I see that we currently set the transfer encoding to chunked when sending a file. Is it really necessary if we now (presumably) set the right Content-Length of the request body correctly by specifying the size of the request body from either string or file, upfront?

[toland]

Nice. 👍

I don't think chunked encoding is strictly necessary, but it has been a long time since I worked on that code.

[julik]

Awesome! Can you roll 0.7 please?

[toland]

Will do.

[toland]

Done.

[julik]

❤️