Net::HTTP and post_form

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I expected this to work (since the #post_form method is documented), but the method is not found:

   require 'net/http'

   Net::HTTP.start('127.0.0.1', 4567) do |http|
     http.post_form('/foo', "bar" => "baz")
   end

Here's the error:

http-post-bug.rb:4: undefined method `post_form' for #<Net::HTTP 127.0.0.1:4567 open=false> (NoMethodError)
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:543:in `start'
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:440:in `start'
         from http-post-bug.rb:3

Why isn't post_form usable in the block form? I'm using the block form because it's actually going thru a proxy.

I can do it myself by creating the request manually:

       req = Net::HTTP::Post.new(path)
       req.form_data = params
       Net::HTTP.new('127.0.0.1', 4567).start {|http|
         http.request(req)
       }

but it's kind of disappointing.

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