diff --git a/lib/msf/core/exploit/http/client.rb b/lib/msf/core/exploit/http/client.rb
index 187059b64c..96a8b00190 100644
--- a/lib/msf/core/exploit/http/client.rb
+++ b/lib/msf/core/exploit/http/client.rb
@@ -508,6 +508,23 @@ module Exploit::Remote::HttpClient
     end
   end
 
+  #
+  # Returns a hash of request opts from a URL string
+  def request_opts_from_url(url)
+    tgt = URI.parse(url)
+    opts = { 'rhost' => tgt.host, 'rport' => tgt.port, 'uri' => tgt.request_uri }
+    opts['SSL'] = true if tgt.scheme == 'https'
+    if tgt.query and tgt.query.size > 13
+      # Assming that this is going to be mostly used for GET requests as string -> req
+      opts['vars_get'] = {}
+      tgt.query.split('&').each do |pair|
+        k,v = pair.split('=',2)
+        opts['vars_get'][k] = v
+      end
+    end
+    return opts
+  end
+
   # removes HTML tags from a provided string.
   # The string is html-unescaped before the tags are removed
   # Leading whitespaces and double linebreaks are removed too
diff --git a/modules/auxiliary/gather/http_pdf_authors.rb b/modules/auxiliary/gather/http_pdf_authors.rb
index 541032c208..19ece51d7d 100644
--- a/modules/auxiliary/gather/http_pdf_authors.rb
+++ b/modules/auxiliary/gather/http_pdf_authors.rb
@@ -88,25 +88,8 @@ class MetasploitModule < Msf::Auxiliary
   def download(url)
     print_status "Downloading '#{url}'"
 
-    begin
-      target = URI.parse url
-      raise 'Invalid URL' unless target.scheme =~ %r{https?}
-      raise 'Invalid URL' if target.host.to_s.eql? ''
-    rescue => e
-      print_error "Could not parse URL: #{e}"
-      return
-    end
 
-    options = {
-      'rhost'  =>  target.host,
-      'rport'  => target.port,
-      'method' => 'GET',
-      'uri'    => target.request_uri
-    }
-
-    options['SSL'] = true if target.scheme.eql? 'https'
-
-    res = send_request_raw(options)
+    res = send_request_raw(request_options_from_url(url))
     disconnect
 
     print_status "HTTP #{res.code} -- Downloaded PDF (#{res.body.length} bytes)"