Google Cloud Tasks always set HttpMethod to GET when using HttpRequest as payload_type

Question

According to this documentation [ https://cloud.google.com/tasks/docs/creating-http-target-tasks ], one should be able to create tasks with type \'http_request\' and \'http_

Answer 1

Thank You for this post, this is a bug in the existing Cloud Tasks UI and we are in the process of fixing this bug.

In the meantime the correct HTTP method of the task can be determined by running the following command:

gcloud beta tasks describe

https://cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/reference/beta/tasks/describe

The above command will show the correct HTTP method for the task.