diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index a2f5454..36a869b 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
     - Added tls renegotiation flag to fix #193 in http.Client
     - Fixed HTML report to display select/combo-box for rows per page (and increased default from 10 to 250 rows).
     - Added Host information to JSON output file
+    - Fixed request method when supplying request file
 
 - v1.0.2
   - Changed
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS.md b/CONTRIBUTORS.md
index d1515e3..ce4dbb8 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS.md
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 * [bsysop](https://twitter.com/bsysop)
 * [ccsplit](https://github.com/ccsplit)
 * [codingo](https://github.com/codingo)
+* [c_sto](https://github.com/c-sto)
 * [Damian89](https://github.com/Damian89)
 * [Daviey](https://github.com/Daviey)
 * [delic](https://github.com/delic)
diff --git a/main.go b/main.go
index 43ee02d..93cb83c 100644
--- a/main.go
+++ b/main.go
@@ -471,10 +471,12 @@ func prepareConfig(parseOpts *cliOptions, conf *ffuf.Config) error {
 	}
 
 	// Handle copy as curl situation where POST method is implied by --data flag. If method is set to anything but GET, NOOP
-	if conf.Method == "GET" {
-		if len(conf.Data) > 0 {
-			conf.Method = "POST"
-		}
+	if len(conf.Data) > 0 &&
+		conf.Method == "GET" &&
+		//don't modify the method automatically if a request file is being used as input
+		len(parseOpts.request) == 0 {
+
+		conf.Method = "POST"
 	}
 
 	conf.CommandLine = strings.Join(os.Args, " ")