Tool for sending multipart/form-data request

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Valentin Despa picture Valentin Despa · Apr 15, 2013 · Viewed 572.8k times · Source

I am currently using the Chrome Addon Postman - REST Client to easily create POST / GET request.

Now I want to debug an upload script and I am looking for a way to make requests encoded as "multipart/form-data" so that I can send also a file.

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Valentin Despa picture Valentin Despa · Apr 15, 2013

UPDATE: I have created a video on sending multipart/form-data requests to explain this better.

Actually, Postman can do this. Here is a screenshot

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Another version

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Older version

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Make sure you check the comment from @maxkoryukov

Be careful with explicit Content-Type header. Better - do not set it's value, the Postman is smart enough to fill this header for you. BUT, if you want to set the Content-Type: multipart/form-data - do not forget about boundary field.

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