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 libcurl bindings for Rust. **This project is in active development and
 could (will probably) break API compatibility at any time**.
 
-[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/carllerche/curl-rust.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/carllerche/curl-rust)
+[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/alexcrichton/curl-rust.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/alexcrichton/curl-rust)
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 ## Quick Start
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 ## Post / Put requests
 
 Both of these methods expect that a request body is provided. A request
-body can be a `&[u8]`, `&str`, or `&Reader`. For example:
+body can be a `&[u8]`, `&str`, `&String`, or `&mut Read`. For example:
 
 ```rust
 let resp = http::handle()