diff --git a/lib/ansible/modules/net_tools/basics/uri.py b/lib/ansible/modules/net_tools/basics/uri.py
index e7ccdefaf50..4220eb1c599 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/modules/net_tools/basics/uri.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/modules/net_tools/basics/uri.py
@@ -133,6 +133,17 @@ options:
         client authentication. If I(client_cert) contains both the certificate
         and key, this option is not required.
     version_added: '2.4'
+  src:
+    description:
+      - Path to file to be submitted to the remote server. Cannot be used with I(body).
+    version_added: '2.7'
+  remote_src:
+    description:
+      - If C(no), the module will search for src on originating/master machine, if C(yes) the
+        module will use the C(src) path on the remote/target machine.
+    type: bool
+    default: 'no'
+    version_added: '2.7'
 notes:
   - The dependency on httplib2 was removed in Ansible 2.1.
   - The module returns all the HTTP headers in lower-case.
@@ -206,6 +217,19 @@ EXAMPLES = r'''
     password: "{{ jenkins.password }}"
     force_basic_auth: yes
     status_code: 201
+
+- name: POST from contents of local file
+  uri:
+    url: "https://httpbin.org/post"
+    method: POST
+    src: file.json
+
+- name: POST from contents of remote file
+  uri:
+    url: "https://httpbin.org/post"
+    method: POST
+    src: /path/to/my/file.json
+    remote_src: true
 '''
 
 RETURN = r'''
@@ -367,6 +391,19 @@ def uri(module, url, dest, body, body_format, method, headers, socket_timeout):
     redirected = False
     redir_info = {}
     r = {}
+
+    src = module.params['src']
+    if src:
+        try:
+            headers.update({
+                'Content-Length': os.stat(src).st_size
+            })
+            data = open(src, 'rb')
+        except OSError:
+            module.fail_json(msg='Unable to open source file %s' % src, exception=traceback.format_exc())
+    else:
+        data = body
+
     if dest is not None:
         # Stash follow_redirects, in this block we don't want to follow
         # we'll reset back to the supplied value soon
@@ -393,7 +430,7 @@ def uri(module, url, dest, body, body_format, method, headers, socket_timeout):
         # Reset follow_redirects back to the stashed value
         module.params['follow_redirects'] = follow_redirects
 
-    resp, info = fetch_url(module, url, data=body, headers=headers,
+    resp, info = fetch_url(module, url, data=data, headers=headers,
                            method=method, timeout=socket_timeout)
 
     try:
@@ -403,6 +440,13 @@ def uri(module, url, dest, body, body_format, method, headers, socket_timeout):
         # may have been stored in the info as 'body'
         content = info.pop('body', '')
 
+    if src:
+        # Try to close the open file handle
+        try:
+            data.close()
+        except Exception:
+            pass
+
     r['redirected'] = redirected or info['url'] != url
     r.update(redir_info)
     r.update(info)
@@ -418,6 +462,7 @@ def main():
         url_password=dict(type='str', aliases=['password'], no_log=True),
         body=dict(type='raw'),
         body_format=dict(type='str', default='raw', choices=['form-urlencoded', 'json', 'raw']),
+        src=dict(type='path'),
         method=dict(type='str', default='GET', choices=['GET', 'POST', 'PUT', 'HEAD', 'DELETE', 'OPTIONS', 'PATCH', 'TRACE', 'CONNECT', 'REFRESH']),
         return_content=dict(type='bool', default=False),
         follow_redirects=dict(type='str', default='safe', choices=['all', 'no', 'none', 'safe', 'urllib2', 'yes']),
@@ -432,7 +477,8 @@ def main():
         argument_spec=argument_spec,
         # TODO: Remove check_invalid_arguments in 2.9
         check_invalid_arguments=False,
-        add_file_common_args=True
+        add_file_common_args=True,
+        mutually_exclusive=[['body', 'src']],
     )
 
     url = module.params['url']
diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/action/uri.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/action/uri.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..0eea66e7a63
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/action/uri.py
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+# (c) 2015, Brian Coca  <briancoca+dev@gmail.com>
+# (c) 2018, Matt Martz  <matt@sivel.net>
+# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see COPYING or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
+
+# Make coding more python3-ish
+from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
+__metaclass__ = type
+
+import os
+
+from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleAction, _AnsibleActionDone, AnsibleActionFail
+from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native
+from ansible.module_utils.parsing.convert_bool import boolean
+from ansible.plugins.action import ActionBase
+
+
+class ActionModule(ActionBase):
+
+    TRANSFERS_FILES = True
+
+    def run(self, tmp=None, task_vars=None):
+        if task_vars is None:
+            task_vars = dict()
+
+        result = super(ActionModule, self).run(tmp, task_vars)
+        del tmp  # tmp no longer has any effect
+
+        src = self._task.args.get('src', None)
+        remote_src = boolean(self._task.args.get('remote_src', 'no'), strict=False)
+
+        try:
+            if (src and remote_src) or not src:
+                # everything is remote, so we just execute the module
+                # without changing any of the module arguments
+                raise _AnsibleActionDone(result=self._execute_module(task_vars=task_vars))
+
+            try:
+                src = self._find_needle('files', src)
+            except AnsibleError as e:
+                raise AnsibleActionFail(to_native(e))
+
+            tmp_src = self._connection._shell.join_path(self._connection._shell.tmpdir, os.path.basename(src))
+            self._transfer_file(src, tmp_src)
+            self._fixup_perms2((self._connection._shell.tmpdir, tmp_src))
+
+            new_module_args = self._task.args.copy()
+            new_module_args.update(
+                dict(
+                    src=tmp_src,
+                )
+            )
+
+            result.update(self._execute_module('uri', module_args=new_module_args, task_vars=task_vars))
+        except AnsibleAction as e:
+            result.update(e.result)
+        finally:
+            self._remove_tmp_path(self._connection._shell.tmpdir)
+        return result
diff --git a/test/integration/targets/uri/tasks/main.yml b/test/integration/targets/uri/tasks/main.yml
index 69f62f87023..abb249dca8a 100644
--- a/test/integration/targets/uri/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/test/integration/targets/uri/tasks/main.yml
@@ -456,6 +456,35 @@
   environment:
     NETRC: "{{ output_dir|expanduser }}/netrc"
 
+- name: Test JSON POST with src
+  uri:
+    url: "https://{{ httpbin_host}}/post"
+    src: pass0.json
+    method: POST
+    return_content: true
+    body_format: json
+  register: result
+
+- name: Validate POST with src works
+  assert:
+    that:
+      - result.json.json[0] == 'JSON Test Pattern pass1'
+
+- name: Test JSON POST with src and remote_src=True
+  uri:
+    url: "https://{{ httpbin_host}}/post"
+    src: "{{ role_path }}/files/pass0.json"
+    remote_src: true
+    method: POST
+    return_content: true
+    body_format: json
+  register: result
+
+- name: Validate POST with src  and remote_src=True works
+  assert:
+    that:
+      - result.json.json[0] == 'JSON Test Pattern pass1'
+
 - name: Test follow_redirects=none
   include_tasks: redirect-none.yml
 
@@ -466,4 +495,4 @@
   include_tasks: redirect-urllib2.yml
 
 - name: Test follow_redirects=all
-  include_tasks: redirect-all.yml
+  include_tasks: redirect-all.yml
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