http-upload – Tarik Billa

Whats Content-Type value within a HTTP-Request when uploading content?

August 2, 2023 by Tarik

The content type is per specification multipart/form-data. This is a special content type which can be visualized as multiple sub-requests in one big request. Each of those sub-requests (one form-data element) has their own set of headers. The content type of the actual data is in there. Here’s an example how it look like with … Read more

multipart/form-data vs application/octet-stream

March 8, 2023 by Tarik

While you don’t intend to send any other data together with the file right now, multipart/form-data would give you the possibility to add additional data later on if this is required (without breaking compatability). Also multipart/form-data would make it possible to access the REST API directly by submitting an HTML form (see https://stackoverflow.com/a/4526286/693140). Your API … Read more