diff --git a/cpp/http/HttpClient.cpp b/cpp/http/HttpClient.cpp
index ef77407ff7..0617abe25e 100644
--- a/cpp/http/HttpClient.cpp
+++ b/cpp/http/HttpClient.cpp
@@ -23,6 +23,11 @@ namespace Snowflake {
         curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, SimpleHttpClient::write);
         curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEDATA, (void *) &response);
 
+        if (!req.body.empty()) {
+          curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, req.body.c_str());
+          curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDSIZE, req.body.size());
+        }
+
         struct curl_slist *header_list = nullptr;
         for (const auto &h: req.headers) {
           std::string hdr = h.first + ": " + h.second;
diff --git a/include/snowflake/HttpClient.hpp b/include/snowflake/HttpClient.hpp
index ca73805999..8a9a1b6b2d 100644
--- a/include/snowflake/HttpClient.hpp
+++ b/include/snowflake/HttpClient.hpp
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ namespace Snowflake {
 
       boost::urls::url url;
       std::map <std::string, std::string> headers;
+      std::string body{};
     };
 
     struct HttpClientConfig {