make entrez_search() use POST (and some minor typo fixes) #164
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This fixes #163.
It causes
entrez_search()to use HTTP POST instead of GET for all calls. This doesn't appear to have a downside, and all tests passed. I did not simply force all requests to go through POST since I assumed that there was a reason for only testing theidsargument and using GET for some calls.