diff --git a/src/service/http.js b/src/service/http.js
index 17cc68ea0e51..c2cbd16174a3 100644
--- a/src/service/http.js
+++ b/src/service/http.js
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 'use strict';
+'use strict';
 
 /**
  * Parse headers into key value object
@@ -360,6 +361,8 @@ function $HttpProvider() {
      *
      *    - **method** – `{string}` – HTTP method (e.g. 'GET', 'POST', etc)
      *    - **url** – `{string}` – Absolute or relative URL of the resource that is being requested.
+     *    - **params** – `{Object.<string|Object>}` – Map of strings or objects which will be turned to
+     *      `?key1=value1&key2=value2` after the url. If the value is not a string, it will be JSONified.
      *    - **data** – `{string|Object}` – Data to be sent as the request message data.
      *    - **headers** – `{Object}` – Map of strings representing HTTP headers to send to the server.
      *    - **transformRequest** – `{function(data, headersGetter)|Array.<function(data, headersGetter)>}` –
@@ -638,7 +641,8 @@ function $HttpProvider() {
       var deferred = $q.defer(),
           promise = deferred.promise,
           cache,
-          cachedResp;
+          cachedResp,
+          url = buildUrl(config.url, config.params);
 
       $http.pendingRequests.push(config);
       promise.then(removePendingReq, removePendingReq);
@@ -649,7 +653,7 @@ function $HttpProvider() {
       }
 
       if (cache) {
-        cachedResp = cache.get(config.url);
+        cachedResp = cache.get(url);
         if (cachedResp) {
           if (cachedResp.then) {
             // cached request has already been sent, but there is no response yet
@@ -665,13 +669,13 @@ function $HttpProvider() {
           }
         } else {
           // put the promise for the non-transformed response into cache as a placeholder
-          cache.put(config.url, promise);
+          cache.put(url, promise);
         }
       }
 
       // if we won't have the response in cache, send the request to the backend
       if (!cachedResp) {
-        $httpBackend(config.method, config.url, reqData, done, reqHeaders, config.timeout);
+        $httpBackend(config.method, url, reqData, done, reqHeaders, config.timeout);
       }
 
       return promise;
@@ -686,10 +690,10 @@ function $HttpProvider() {
       function done(status, response, headersString) {
         if (cache) {
           if (isSuccess(status)) {
-            cache.put(config.url, [status, response, parseHeaders(headersString)]);
+            cache.put(url, [status, response, parseHeaders(headersString)]);
           } else {
             // remove promise from the cache
-            cache.remove(config.url);
+            cache.remove(url);
           }
         }
 
@@ -719,5 +723,21 @@ function $HttpProvider() {
         if (idx !== -1) $http.pendingRequests.splice(idx, 1);
       }
     }
+
+
+    function buildUrl(url, params) {
+          if (!params) return url;
+          var parts = [];
+          forEachSorted(params, function(value, key) {
+            if (value == null || value == undefined) return;
+            if (isObject(value)) {
+              value = toJson(value);
+            }
+            parts.push(encodeURIComponent(key) + '=' + encodeURIComponent(value));
+          });
+          return url + ((url.indexOf('?') == -1) ? '?' : '&') + parts.join('&');
+        }
+
+
   }];
 }
diff --git a/test/service/httpSpec.js b/test/service/httpSpec.js
index 43dbf3aff055..ab50827c2272 100644
--- a/test/service/httpSpec.js
+++ b/test/service/httpSpec.js
@@ -132,6 +132,26 @@ describe('$http', function() {
     // TODO(vojta): test passing timeout
 
 
+    describe('params', function() {
+      it('should do basic request with params and encode', inject(function($httpBackend, $http) {
+        $httpBackend.expect('GET', '/url?a%3D=%3F%26&b=2').respond('');
+        $http({url: '/url', params: {'a=':'?&', b:2}, method: 'GET'});
+      }));
+
+
+      it('should merge params if url contains some already', inject(function($httpBackend, $http) {
+        $httpBackend.expect('GET', '/url?c=3&a=1&b=2').respond('');
+        $http({url: '/url?c=3', params: {a:1, b:2}, method: 'GET'});
+      }));
+
+
+      it('should jsonify objects in params map', inject(function($httpBackend, $http) {
+        $httpBackend.expect('GET', '/url?a=1&b=%7B%22c%22%3A3%7D').respond('');
+        $http({url: '/url', params: {a:1, b:{c:3}}, method: 'GET'});
+      }));
+    });
+
+
     describe('callbacks', function() {
 
       it('should pass in the response object when a request is successful', function() {