docs: def post(self, url, body):
          """Perform a POST request to the given resource with the given
          body.  The "url" argument will be joined to the base URL this
          object was initialized with.
  
          :param string url: the URL resource to hit
          :param string body: the POST body for the request
          :rtype: requests.Response object"""
  
          to_hit = urlparse.urljoin(self.base_url, url)
          resp = self.pool.post(to_hit, data=body, auth=self.auth)
          return resp