First pass at adding support for GET requests

with a body

packages/node_modules/@node-red/nodes/core/network/21-httprequest.html

@@ -33,8 +33,12 @@
     </div>
 
     <div class="form-row node-input-paytoqs-row">
-        <input type="checkbox" id="node-input-paytoqs" style="display: inline-block; width: auto; vertical-align: top;">
+        <label for="node-input-paytox" style="width: auto" data-i18n="httpin.label.paytoqs"></label>
-        <label for="node-input-paytoqs" style="width: auto" data-i18n="httpin.label.paytoqs"></label>
+        <select id="node-input-paytox">
+            <option value="ignore">Ignore</option>
+            <option value="query">Query String</option>
+            <option value="body">Request Body</option>
+        </select>
     </div>
 
     <div class="form-row">
@@ -106,6 +110,7 @@
             method:{value:"GET"},
             ret: {value:"txt"},
             paytoqs: {value: false},
+            paytobody: {value: false},
             url:{value:"",validate:function(v) { return (v.trim().length === 0) || (v.indexOf("://") === -1) || (v.trim().indexOf("http") === 0)} },
             tls: {type:"tls-config",required: false},
             persist: {value:false},
@@ -168,6 +173,13 @@
                     $(".node-input-paytoqs-row").hide();
                 }
             });
+            if (this.paytoqs) {
+                $("#node-input-paytox").val("query");
+            } else if (this.paytobody) {
+                $("#node-input-paytox").val("body");
+            } else {
+                $("#node-input-paytox").val("ignore");
+            }
             if (this.authType) {
                 $('#node-input-useAuth').prop('checked', true);
                 $("#node-input-authType-select").val(this.authType);
@@ -226,6 +238,18 @@
             if (!$("#node-input-useProxy").is(":checked")) {
                 $("#node-input-proxy").val("_ADD_");
             }
+
+            var payto = $("#node-input-paytox").val();
+            if(payto == "query") {
+                this.paytoqs = true;
+                this.paytobody = false;
+            } else if (payto == "body") {
+                this.paytoqs = false;
+                this.paytobody = true;
+            } else {
+                this.paytoqs = false;
+                this.paytobody = false;
+            }
         }
     });
 </script>

packages/node_modules/@node-red/nodes/core/network/21-httprequest.js

@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ module.exports = function(RED) {
         var isTemplatedUrl = (nodeUrl||"").indexOf("{{") != -1;
         var nodeMethod = n.method || "GET";
         var paytoqs = n.paytoqs;
+        var paytobody = n.paytobody;
         var nodeHTTPPersistent = n["persist"];
         if (n.tls) {
             var tlsNode = RED.nodes.getNode(n.tls);
@@ -277,6 +278,14 @@ module.exports = function(RED) {
                     node.error(RED._("httpin.errors.invalid-payload"),msg);
                     nodeDone();
                     return;
+                } 
+            } else if ( method == "GET" && typeof msg.payload !== "undefined" && paytobody) {
+                if (typeof msg.payload === "object") {
+                    opts.body = JSON.stringify(msg.payload);
+                } else if (typeof msg.payload == "number") {
+                    opts.body = msg.payload+"";
+                } else if (typeof msg.payload === "string" || Buffer.isBuffer(msg.payload)) {
+                    opts.body = msg.payload;
                 }
             }
 

packages/node_modules/@node-red/nodes/locales/en-US/messages.json

@@ -398,7 +398,7 @@
             "status": "Status code",
             "headers": "Headers",
             "other": "other",
-            "paytoqs" : "Append msg.payload as query string parameters",
+            "paytoqs" : "Append msg.payload as",
             "utf8String": "UTF8 string",
             "binaryBuffer": "binary buffer",
             "jsonObject": "parsed JSON object",