diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 76d4b11..6449f49 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -287,6 +287,18 @@ In the future the server certificate will be extracted from the BinarySecurityTo
 ### SSL
 Just specify an http**s** address in any of the previous samples.
 
+### HTTP Request options [Optional]
+
+Add any of the available http request options like timeout, proxy etc. while sending a ws request.
+List of all available options: [Request Options Callback](https://github.com/request/request#requestoptions-callback)
+Pass on the options as a JSON Object to constructor argument of Http handler as shown below:
+
+`````javascript
+
+var handlers =  [ new Addr("http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2004/08/addressing")
+                , new Http({timeout: 3000})
+                ]
+`````
 ### All together now
 `````javascript
     var ws = require('ws.js')
@@ -340,4 +352,3 @@ THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLI
 
 
 [![Bitdeli Badge](https://d2weczhvl823v0.cloudfront.net/yaronn/ws.js/trend.png)](https://bitdeli.com/free "Bitdeli Badge")
-
diff --git a/lib/handlers/client/http.js b/lib/handlers/client/http.js
index ccd4c3d..8607dcd 100644
--- a/lib/handlers/client/http.js
+++ b/lib/handlers/client/http.js
@@ -3,19 +3,36 @@ var utils = require('../../utils')
 
 exports.HttpClientHandler = HttpClientHandler
 
-function HttpClientHandler() {}
+function HttpClientHandler() {
+  if(arguments.length == 1) {
+    this._options = arguments[0];
+  }
+}
+
+function jsonConcat(o1, o2) {
+ for (var key in o2) {
+  o1[key] = o2[key];
+ }
+ return o1;
+}
 
 HttpClientHandler.prototype.send = function(ctx, callback) {
-  request.post({ url: ctx.url
-               , body: ctx.request
-               , headers: { "SOAPAction": ctx.action
-                          , "Content-Type": ctx.contentType
-                          , "MIME-Version": "1.0"
-                          }
-               , encoding: null
-	       , rejectUnauthorized: false
-	       , agentOptions: ctx.agentOptions
-               },
+  var options = { url: ctx.url,
+                  body: ctx.request,
+                  headers: { "SOAPAction": ctx.action,
+                            "Content-Type": ctx.contentType,
+                            "MIME-Version": "1.0"
+                          },
+                  encoding: null,
+                  rejectUnauthorized: false,
+                  agentOptions: ctx.agentOptions,
+                };
+
+  if(this._options !== 'undefined') {
+      options = jsonConcat(options, this._options);
+  }
+
+  request.post(options,
                function (error, response, body) {
     ctx.response = body
       if (response) {