diff --git a/nodes/core/io/21-httpin.js b/nodes/core/io/21-httpin.js
index 22e3133ef..cbbc1875e 100644
--- a/nodes/core/io/21-httpin.js
+++ b/nodes/core/io/21-httpin.js
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ module.exports = function(RED) {
     var isUtf8 = require('is-utf8');
 
     function rawBodyParser(req, res, next) {
+        if (req.skipRawBodyParser) { next(); } // don't parse this if told to skip
         if (req._body) { return next(); }
         req.body = "";
         req._body = true;
@@ -55,7 +56,6 @@ module.exports = function(RED) {
             if (!isText && checkUTF && isUtf8(buf)) {
                 buf = buf.toString()
             }
-
             req.body = buf;
             next();
         });
@@ -204,7 +204,6 @@ module.exports = function(RED) {
             }
 
             var metricsHandler = function(req,res,next) { next(); }
-
             if (this.metric()) {
                 metricsHandler = function(req, res, next) {
                     var startAt = process.hrtime();
@@ -267,7 +266,7 @@ module.exports = function(RED) {
                                 } else {
                                     msg.res._res.clearCookie(name);
                                 }
-                            } else  if (typeof msg.cookies[name] === 'object') {
+                            } else if (typeof msg.cookies[name] === 'object') {
                                 msg.res._res.cookie(name,msg.cookies[name].value,msg.cookies[name]);
                             } else {
                                 msg.res._res.cookie(name,msg.cookies[name]);
diff --git a/settings.js b/settings.js
index 5ec7fcef0..5b7812022 100644
--- a/settings.js
+++ b/settings.js
@@ -82,6 +82,10 @@ module.exports = {
     // that should be served at http://localhost:1880/.
     //httpStatic: '/home/nol/node-red-static/',
 
+    // If you installed the optional node-red-dashboard you can set it's path 
+    // relative to httpRoot
+    //ui: { path: "ui" },
+
     // Securing Node-RED
     // -----------------
     // To password protect the Node-RED editor and admin API, the following
@@ -138,9 +142,10 @@ module.exports = {
     // in front of all http in nodes. This allows custom authentication to be
     // applied to all http in nodes, or any other sort of common request processing.
     //httpNodeMiddleware: function(req,res,next) {
-    //   // Handle/reject the request, or pass it on to the http in node
-    //   // by calling next();
-    //   next();
+    //    // Handle/reject the request, or pass it on to the http in node by calling next();
+    //    // Optionally skip our rawBodyParser by setting this to true;
+    //    //req.skipRawBodyParser = true;
+    //    next();
     //},
 
     // Anything in this hash is globally available to all functions.