diff --git a/lua/rest-nvim/config/init.lua b/lua/rest-nvim/config/init.lua
index 036f7f8a..955a3223 100644
--- a/lua/rest-nvim/config/init.lua
+++ b/lua/rest-nvim/config/init.lua
@@ -15,22 +15,15 @@ local config = {
     formatters = {
       json = "jq",
       html = function(body)
-        return vim.fn
-          .system({
-            "tidy",
-            "-i",
-            "-q",
-            "--tidy-mark",
-            "no",
-            "--show-body-only",
-            "auto",
-            "--show-errors",
-            "0",
-            "--show-warnings",
-            "0",
-            "-",
-          }, body)
-          :gsub("\n$", "")
+        -- stylua: ignore
+        return vim.fn.system({
+          "tidy", "-i", "-q",
+          "--tidy-mark",      "no",
+          "--show-body-only", "auto",
+          "--show-errors",    "0",
+          "--show-warnings",  "0",
+          "-",
+        }, body):gsub("\n$", "")
       end,
     },
   },
diff --git a/lua/rest-nvim/request/init.lua b/lua/rest-nvim/request/init.lua
index 71757d5e..20448fd1 100644
--- a/lua/rest-nvim/request/init.lua
+++ b/lua/rest-nvim/request/init.lua
@@ -72,10 +72,18 @@ local function get_body(bufnr, start_line, stop_line, has_json)
   end
 
   local is_json, json_body = pcall(vim.fn.json_decode, body)
+
   if is_json then
     if has_json then
+      -- convert entire json body to string.
       return vim.fn.json_encode(json_body)
     else
+      -- convert nested tables to string.
+      for key, val in pairs(json_body) do
+        if type(val) == "table" then
+          json_body[key] = vim.fn.json_encode(val)
+        end
+      end
       return json_body
     end
   end
@@ -104,8 +112,7 @@ local function get_headers(bufnr, start_line, end_line)
 
   -- Iterate over all buffer lines starting after the request line
   for line_number = start_line + 1, end_line do
-    local line = vim.fn.getbufline(bufnr, line_number)
-    local line_content = line[1]
+    local line_content = vim.fn.getbufline(bufnr, line_number)[1]
 
     -- message header and message body are seperated by CRLF (see RFC 2616)
     -- for our purpose also the next request line will stop the header search
@@ -138,11 +145,24 @@ local function get_curl_args(bufnr, headers_end, end_line)
   local body_start = end_line
 
   for line_number = headers_end, end_line do
-    local line = vim.fn.getbufline(bufnr, line_number)
-    local line_content = line[1]
+    local line_content = vim.fn.getbufline(bufnr, line_number)[1]
 
     if line_content:find("^ *%-%-?[a-zA-Z%-]+") then
-      table.insert(curl_args, line_content)
+      local lc = vim.split(line_content, " ")
+      local x  = ""
+
+      for i, y in ipairs(lc) do
+        x = x .. y
+
+        if #y:match("\\*$") % 2 == 1 and i ~= #lc then
+          -- insert space if there is an slash at end
+          x = x .. " "
+        else
+          -- insert 'x' into curl_args and reset it
+          table.insert(curl_args, x)
+          x = ""
+        end
+      end
     elseif not line_content:find("^ *$") then
       if line_number ~= end_line then
         body_start = line_number - 1
diff --git a/tests/post_json_form.http b/tests/post_json_form.http
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b63e6f3a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/post_json_form.http
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+# Run:
+# $ python -m http.server 8080
+
+# it should return status code 501
+POST http://localhost:8080
+
+{
+	"string": "foo",
+	"number": 100,
+	"array":  [1, 2, 3],
+	"json": {
+		"key": "value"
+	}
+}