back to <FORM ENCTYPE="...">

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What is Actually Sent with ENCTYPE

The browser encodes form data very differently for application/x-www-form-urlencoded and "multipart/form-data".

application/x-www-form-urlencoded

POST /cgi-bin/maillist.cgi HTTP/1.0
Accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, */*
Referer: https://www.idocs.com/tags/foo.html
Accept-Language: en
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
UA-pixels: 640x480
UA-color: color8
UA-OS: Windows 95
UA-CPU: x86
User-Agent: Mozilla/2.0 (compatible; MSIE 3.0; Windows 95)
Host: 10.10.10.20
Content-Length: 45
Pragma: No-Cache
Connection: Keep-Alive

realname=Steve+Johnson&[email protected]

multipart/form-data

POST /cgi-bin/maillist.cgi HTTP/1.0
Accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, */*
Referer: https://www.idocs.com/tags/foo.html
Accept-Language: en
Content-type: multipart/form-data; boundary=---------------------------7cd1d6371ec
UA-pixels: 640x480
UA-color: color8
UA-OS: Windows 95
UA-CPU: x86
User-Agent: Mozilla/2.0 (compatible; MSIE 3.0; Windows 95)
Host: 10.10.10.20
Content-Length: 25852
Pragma: No-Cache
Connection: Keep-Alive

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Content-Disposition: form-data; name="realname"

Steve Johnson
-----------------------------7cd1d6371ec
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="email"

[email protected]
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Content-Disposition: form-data; name="MyPicture"; filename="C:\My Documents\Java\misc\pics\steve.jpg"
Content-Type: image/jpeg

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