QNetworkAccessManager: add method to send custom requests

This method was added to support e.g. HTTP OPTIONS (needed by Webkit);
rather than adding one method for each of those exotic verbs, there is
now a generic version for all.

Reviewed-by: Markus Goetz
Reviewed-by: Andreas Kling
Task-number: QTBUG-8206

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/network/access/qnetworkaccesshttpbackend.cpp b/src/network/access/qnetworkaccesshttpbackend.cpp
index 8e02723..c8f4e5b 100644
--- a/src/network/access/qnetworkaccesshttpbackend.cpp
+++ b/src/network/access/qnetworkaccesshttpbackend.cpp
@@ -213,6 +213,7 @@ QNetworkAccessHttpBackendFactory::create(QNetworkAccessManager::Operation op,
     case QNetworkAccessManager::HeadOperation:
     case QNetworkAccessManager::PutOperation:
     case QNetworkAccessManager::DeleteOperation:
+    case QNetworkAccessManager::CustomOperation:
         break;
 
     default:
@@ -526,6 +527,14 @@ void QNetworkAccessHttpBackend::postRequest()
         httpRequest.setOperation(QHttpNetworkRequest::Delete);
         break;
 
+    case QNetworkAccessManager::CustomOperation:
+        invalidateCache(); // for safety reasons, we don't know what the operation does
+        httpRequest.setOperation(QHttpNetworkRequest::Custom);
+        httpRequest.setUploadByteDevice(createUploadByteDevice());
+        httpRequest.setCustomVerb(request().attribute(
+                QNetworkRequest::CustomVerbAttribute).toByteArray());
+        break;
+
     default:
         break;                  // can't happen
     }