diff --git a/projects/vdk-plugins/vdk-ingest-http/requirements.txt b/projects/vdk-plugins/vdk-ingest-http/requirements.txt
index df19837582..32530a0291 100644
--- a/projects/vdk-plugins/vdk-ingest-http/requirements.txt
+++ b/projects/vdk-plugins/vdk-ingest-http/requirements.txt
@@ -3,5 +3,6 @@
 pytest
 pytest-httpserver
 requests
+simplejson
 vdk-core
 vdk-test-utils
diff --git a/projects/vdk-plugins/vdk-ingest-http/setup.py b/projects/vdk-plugins/vdk-ingest-http/setup.py
index f237ce1a02..8e3ae7699e 100644
--- a/projects/vdk-plugins/vdk-ingest-http/setup.py
+++ b/projects/vdk-plugins/vdk-ingest-http/setup.py
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
     description="Versatile Data Kit SDK ingestion plugin to ingest data via http requests.",
     long_description=pathlib.Path("README.md").read_text(),
     long_description_content_type="text/markdown",
-    install_requires=["vdk-core"],
+    install_requires=["vdk-core", "simplejson"],
     package_dir={"": "src"},
     packages=setuptools.find_namespace_packages(where="src"),
     entry_points={
diff --git a/projects/vdk-plugins/vdk-ingest-http/src/vdk/plugin/ingest_http/ingest_over_http.py b/projects/vdk-plugins/vdk-ingest-http/src/vdk/plugin/ingest_http/ingest_over_http.py
index 406dc03f99..17b534df65 100644
--- a/projects/vdk-plugins/vdk-ingest-http/src/vdk/plugin/ingest_http/ingest_over_http.py
+++ b/projects/vdk-plugins/vdk-ingest-http/src/vdk/plugin/ingest_http/ingest_over_http.py
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 # Copyright 2021 VMware, Inc.
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
 import gzip
-import json
 import logging
 import sys
 from typing import Dict
@@ -10,6 +9,7 @@
 from typing import Optional
 
 import requests
+import simplejson as json
 from requests.adapters import HTTPAdapter
 from urllib3.util.retry import Retry
 from vdk.internal.builtin_plugins.ingestion.ingester_base import IIngesterPlugin
diff --git a/projects/vdk-plugins/vdk-ingest-http/tests/test_ingest_over_http.py b/projects/vdk-plugins/vdk-ingest-http/tests/test_ingest_over_http.py
index 41bdf416d8..3dce928afe 100644
--- a/projects/vdk-plugins/vdk-ingest-http/tests/test_ingest_over_http.py
+++ b/projects/vdk-plugins/vdk-ingest-http/tests/test_ingest_over_http.py
@@ -1,12 +1,13 @@
 # Copyright 2021 VMware, Inc.
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
 import gzip
-import json
 import sys
+from decimal import Decimal
 from unittest import mock
 from unittest.mock import MagicMock
 
 import pytest
+import simplejson as json
 from vdk.internal.core.errors import PlatformServiceError
 from vdk.internal.core.errors import UserCodeError
 from vdk.internal.core.errors import VdkConfigurationError
@@ -231,7 +232,31 @@ def arg(a):
     )
 
 
-@mock.patch("json.dumps")
+@mock.patch("requests.Session.post", side_effect=mocked_requests_post)
+def test_ingest_over_http_special_type(mock_post):
+    http_ingester: IngestOverHttp = IngestOverHttp(job_context)
+    payload["decimal"] = Decimal(15.5)
+    http_ingester.ingest_payload(
+        payload=[payload],
+        destination_table="test_table",
+        target="http://example.com/data-source",
+    )
+
+    assert mock_post.call_count == 1
+
+    payload["@table"] = "test_table"
+
+    mock_post.assert_called_with(
+        url="http://example.com/data-source",
+        data=json.dumps([payload]),
+        headers={"Content-Type": "application/octet-stream"},
+        timeout=(None, None),
+        cert=None,
+        verify=None,
+    )
+
+
+@mock.patch("simplejson.dumps")
 def test_ingest_over_http_json_dumps_parameters_propagation(mock_jsondumps):
     allow_nan = True