From 75a40815498fa370e81ad3bc60fb769eb8c7ce1f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kohsuke Kawaguchi <kk@kohsuke.org>
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2015 14:57:30 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Follow up to PR #216

---
 src/main/java/org/kohsuke/github/Requester.java | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/main/java/org/kohsuke/github/Requester.java b/src/main/java/org/kohsuke/github/Requester.java
index 92f069bdfe..81fe507d8b 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/kohsuke/github/Requester.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/kohsuke/github/Requester.java
@@ -259,6 +259,8 @@ public int asHttpStatusCode(String tailApiUrl) throws IOException {
         while (true) {// loop while API rate limit is hit
             setupConnection(root.getApiURL(tailApiUrl));
 
+            uc.setRequestMethod("GET");
+
             buildRequest();
 
             try {
@@ -273,7 +275,6 @@ public InputStream asStream(String tailApiUrl) throws IOException {
         while (true) {// loop while API rate limit is hit
             setupConnection(root.getApiURL(tailApiUrl));
 
-           
             // if the download link is encoded with a token on the query string, the default behavior of POST will fail
             uc.setRequestMethod("GET");