class HTTP::Client

def request(verb, uri, opts = {}) # rubocop:disable Style/OptionHash
  opts    = @default_options.merge(opts)
  uri     = make_request_uri(uri, opts)
  headers = make_request_headers(opts)
  body    = make_request_body(opts, headers)
  proxy   = opts.proxy
  req = HTTP::Request.new(
    :verb         => verb,
    :uri          => uri,
    :headers      => headers,
    :proxy        => proxy,
    :body         => body,
    :auto_deflate => opts.feature(:auto_deflate)
  )
  res = perform(req, opts)
  return res unless opts.follow
  Redirector.new(opts.follow).perform(req, res) do |request|
    perform(request, opts)
  end
end