diff --git a/docs/features/requestaggregation.rst b/docs/features/requestaggregation.rst
index f74ba4437..bfdc03af8 100644
--- a/docs/features/requestaggregation.rst
+++ b/docs/features/requestaggregation.rst
@@ -181,6 +181,4 @@ Gotcha's / Further info
 
 You cannot use Routes with specific RequestIdKeys as this would be crazy complicated to track.
 
-Aggregation supports the GET HTTP Verb for pure REST, it supports other verbs for apis which do not fully follow REST.
-
-
+Aggregation supports the GET HTTP Verb for pure REST. It supports other verbs for APIs which do not fully follow REST.
diff --git a/src/Ocelot/Configuration/Creator/AggregatesCreator.cs b/src/Ocelot/Configuration/Creator/AggregatesCreator.cs
index 7665bfd82..e41d55a25 100644
--- a/src/Ocelot/Configuration/Creator/AggregatesCreator.cs
+++ b/src/Ocelot/Configuration/Creator/AggregatesCreator.cs
@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
-using System.Collections.Generic;
-using System.Linq;
-
-using Ocelot.Configuration.Builder;
-
-using Ocelot.Configuration.File;
+using Ocelot.Configuration.Builder;
+using Ocelot.Configuration.File;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.Linq;
+using System.Net.Http;
 
 namespace Ocelot.Configuration.Creator
 {
@@ -25,12 +24,12 @@ public List<Route> Create(FileConfiguration fileConfiguration, List<Route> route
         }
 
         private Route SetUpAggregateRoute(IEnumerable<Route> routes, FileAggregateRoute aggregateRoute, FileGlobalConfiguration globalConfiguration)
-        {
-            if (!aggregateRoute.UpstreamHttpMethod.Any())
-            {
-                // Default Method to Get for standard use case
-                aggregateRoute.UpstreamHttpMethod.Add("Get");
-            }
+        {
+            if (!aggregateRoute.UpstreamHttpMethod.Any())
+            {
+                // Default method to Get for standard use case
+                aggregateRoute.UpstreamHttpMethod.Add(HttpMethod.Get.ToString());
+            }
 
             var applicableRoutes = new List<DownstreamRoute>();
             var allRoutes = routes.SelectMany(x => x.DownstreamRoute);
diff --git a/src/Ocelot/Configuration/File/FileAggregateRoute.cs b/src/Ocelot/Configuration/File/FileAggregateRoute.cs
index 8b18b41ea..c1776a2cf 100644
--- a/src/Ocelot/Configuration/File/FileAggregateRoute.cs
+++ b/src/Ocelot/Configuration/File/FileAggregateRoute.cs
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ public class FileAggregateRoute : IRoute
         public string UpstreamHost { get; set; }
         public bool RouteIsCaseSensitive { get; set; }
         public string Aggregator { get; set; }
-        public List<string> UpstreamHttpMethod { get; private set; } = new();
+        public List<string> UpstreamHttpMethod { get; set; } = new();
         public int Priority { get; set; } = 1;
     }
 }