demonstrate ability to set headers

#9

Author: catwell

LICENSE.txt

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Copyright (C) 2012-2013 by Moodstocks SAS
-Copyright (C) 2014-2022 by Pierre Chapuis
+Copyright (C) since 2014 by Pierre Chapuis
 
 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
 of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal

README.md

@@ -68,6 +68,15 @@ rq.url = "http://httpbin.org/post"
 local b, c, h = http.request(rq)
 ```
 
+Example setting extra headers (here Authorization):
+
+```lua
+local rq = mp.gen_request({myfile = {name = "myfilename", data = "some data"}})
+rq.url = "http://httpbin.org/post"
+rq.headers.Authorization = "Bearer SomeToken42"
+local b, c, h = http.request(rq)
+```
+
 ## Bugs
 
 Non-ASCII part names are not supported.
@@ -91,5 +100,5 @@ Note that non-ASCII file names are supported since version 1.2.
 
 ## Copyright
 
-- Copyright (c) 2012-2013 Moodstocks SAS
-- Copyright (c) 2014-2022 Pierre Chapuis
+- Copyright (c) 2012 - 2013 Moodstocks SAS
+- Copyright (c) since 2014 Pierre Chapuis

multipart-post.test.lua

@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ T:start("gen_request"); do
         },
         foo = "bar",
     }
+    rq.headers.Authorization = "Bearer SomeToken42"
 
     rq.url = "http://httpbin.org/post"
     rq.sink = ltn12.sink.table(r)
@@ -47,6 +48,7 @@ T:start("gen_request"); do
         ltn12file="ltn12 data"
     })
     T:eq(r.form, {foo = "bar"})
+    T:eq(r.headers.Authorization, "Bearer SomeToken42")
 end; T:done()
 
 T:start("encode"); do