diff --git a/Readme.md b/Readme.md
index 1d4c37a..613ffb5 100644
--- a/Readme.md
+++ b/Readme.md
@@ -77,11 +77,16 @@ describe('OAuth2',function(){
 Change History
 ============== 
 
+* 0.9.12
+    - OAuth1/2: Can now pass Buffer instance directly for PUTs+POSTs (thank you Evan Prodromou)
+    - OAuth1:   Improve interoperability with libraries that mess with the prototype. (thank you Jose Ignacio Andres)
+    - OAuth2:   Adds PUT support for OAuth2 (thank you Derek Brooks)
+    - OAuth1:   Improves use_strict compatibility (thank you Ted Goddard)
 * 0.9.11
-    - OAuth2:  No longer sends the type=webserver argument with the OAuth2 requests (thank you bendiy)
-    - OAuth2:  Provides a default (and overrideable) User-Agent header (thanks to Andrew Martens & Daniel Mahlow)
-    - OAuth1:  New followRedirects client option (true by default) (thanks to Pieter Joost van de Sande)
-    - OAuth1:  Adds RSA-SHA1 support (thanks to Jeffrey D. Van Alstine  & Michael Garvin &  Andreas Knecht)
+    - OAuth2:   No longer sends the type=webserver argument with the OAuth2 requests (thank you bendiy)
+    - OAuth2:   Provides a default (and overrideable) User-Agent header (thanks to Andrew Martens & Daniel Mahlow)
+    - OAuth1:   New followRedirects client option (true by default) (thanks to Pieter Joost van de Sande)
+    - OAuth1:   Adds RSA-SHA1 support (thanks to Jeffrey D. Van Alstine  & Michael Garvin &  Andreas Knecht)
 * 0.9.10
     - OAuth2:   Addresses 2 issues that came in with 0.9.9, #129 & #125 (thank you José F. Romaniello)
 * 0.9.9
@@ -149,6 +154,10 @@ Change History
 Contributors (In no particular order)
 =====================================
 
+* Evan Prodromou
+* Jose Ignacio Andres
+* Ted Goddard
+* Derek Brooks
 * Ciaran Jessup - ciaranj@gmail.com
 * Mark Wubben - http://equalmedia.com/
 * Ryan LeFevre - http://meltingice.net
diff --git a/lib/oauth2.js b/lib/oauth2.js
index e8a661f..e2505df 100644
--- a/lib/oauth2.js
+++ b/lib/oauth2.js
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ exports.OAuth2.prototype._chooseHttpLibrary= function( parsedUrl ) {
 
 exports.OAuth2.prototype._request= function(method, url, headers, post_body, access_token, callback) {
 
+  var creds = crypto.createCredentials({ });
   var parsedUrl= URL.parse( url, true );
   if( parsedUrl.protocol == "https:" && !parsedUrl.port ) {
     parsedUrl.port= 443;
@@ -83,7 +84,16 @@ exports.OAuth2.prototype._request= function(method, url, headers, post_body, acc
     realHeaders['User-Agent'] = 'Node-oauth';
   }
 
-  realHeaders['Content-Length']= post_body ? Buffer.byteLength(post_body) : 0;
+  if( post_body ) {
+      if ( Buffer.isBuffer(post_body) ) {
+          realHeaders["Content-Length"]= post_body.length;
+      } else {
+          realHeaders["Content-Length"]= Buffer.byteLength(post_body);
+      }
+  } else {
+      realHeaders["Content-length"]= 0;
+  }
+
   if( access_token && !('Authorization' in realHeaders)) {
     if( ! parsedUrl.query ) parsedUrl.query= {};
     parsedUrl.query[this._accessTokenName]= access_token;
@@ -193,10 +203,12 @@ exports.OAuth2.prototype.getProtectedResource= function(url, access_token, callb
 }
 
 exports.OAuth2.prototype.get= function(url, access_token, callback) {
-  var headers= {};
   if( this._useAuthorizationHeaderForGET ) {
-    headers= {'Authorization': this.buildAuthHeader(access_token) }
+    var headers= {'Authorization': this.buildAuthHeader(access_token) }
     access_token= null;
   }
+  else {
+    headers= {};
+  }
   this._request("GET", url, headers, "", access_token, callback );
 }
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 14a9b6d..66485a8 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 { "name" : "oauth"
 , "description" : "Library for interacting with OAuth 1.0, 1.0A, 2 and Echo.  Provides simplified client access and allows for construction of more complex apis and OAuth providers."
-, "version" : "0.9.11"
+, "version" : "0.9.12"
 , "directories" : { "lib" : "./lib" }
 , "main" : "index.js"
 , "author" : "Ciaran Jessup <ciaranj@gmail.com>"
diff --git a/tests/oauth2.js b/tests/oauth2.js
index 9352714..ab9bb96 100644
--- a/tests/oauth2.js
+++ b/tests/oauth2.js
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 var vows = require('vows'),
     assert = require('assert'),
+    https = require('https'),
     OAuth2= require('../lib/oauth2').OAuth2,
     url = require('url');
 
@@ -158,6 +159,29 @@ vows.describe('OAuth2').addBatch({
             }
             oa._request("POST", "", {"Content-Type":"text/plain"}, "THIS_IS_A_POST_BODY_STRING");
             assert.ok( bodyWritten );
+          },
+          'we should see a given buffer being sent to the request' : function(oa) {
+            var bodyWritten= false;
+            oa._chooseHttpLibrary= function() {
+              return {
+                request: function(options) {
+                  assert.equal(options.headers["Content-Type"], "application/octet-stream");
+                  assert.equal(options.headers["Content-Length"], 4);
+                  assert.equal(options.method, "POST");
+                  return  {
+                    end: function() {},
+                    on: function() {},
+                    write: function(body) {
+                      bodyWritten= true;
+                      assert.isNotNull(body);
+                      assert.equal(4, body.length)
+                    }
+                  }
+                }
+              };
+            }
+            oa._request("POST", "", {"Content-Type":"application/octet-stream"}, new Buffer([1,2,3,4]));
+            assert.ok( bodyWritten );
           }
         },
         'When PUTing': {
@@ -183,6 +207,29 @@ vows.describe('OAuth2').addBatch({
             }
             oa._request("PUT", "", {"Content-Type":"text/plain"}, "THIS_IS_A_PUT_BODY_STRING");
             assert.ok( bodyWritten );
+          },
+          'we should see a given buffer being sent to the request' : function(oa) {
+            var bodyWritten= false;
+            oa._chooseHttpLibrary= function() {
+              return {
+                request: function(options) {
+                  assert.equal(options.headers["Content-Type"], "application/octet-stream");
+                  assert.equal(options.headers["Content-Length"], 4);
+                  assert.equal(options.method, "PUT");
+                  return  {
+                    end: function() {},
+                    on: function() {},
+                    write: function(body) {
+                      bodyWritten= true;
+                      assert.isNotNull(body);
+                      assert.equal(4, body.length)
+                    }
+                  }
+                }
+              };
+            }
+            oa._request("PUT", "", {"Content-Type":"application/octet-stream"}, new Buffer([1,2,3,4]));
+            assert.ok( bodyWritten );
           }
         }
     },
@@ -209,14 +256,5 @@ vows.describe('OAuth2').addBatch({
           oa.get("", {});
         }
       }
-    },
-    'HTTPS URL connection testing, ': {
-      topic: function() {
-        var oa = new OAuth2("clientId", "clientSecret");
-        oa._request('GET', 'https://www.bing.com/', {}, null, '', this.callback);
-      },
-      'we should correctly get the response code == 200': function(error, result, response) {
-        assert.equal(response.statusCode, 200);
-      }
     }
 }).export(module);