Form content type for a json HTTP POST

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Just wanted a clarification of the form content types    application x-www-form-urlencoded  This is where you can send params encoded with the url  multipart form-data       I need to send a JSON in the post  so it would have the type  text x-json  I guess   So the question is  is multipart form-data suitable for this purpose   is application x-www-form-urlencoded better   Also  would it be possible to send some params encoded in the url  and some data in the json

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I have wondered the same thing  Basically it appears that the html spec has different content types for html and form data  Json only has a single content type   According to the spec  a POST of json data should have the content-type  application json  Relevant portion of the HTML spec     6 7 Content types  MIME types      Examples of content types include  text html    image png    image gif    video mpeg    text css   and    audio basic        17 13 4 Form content types     application x-www-form-urlencoded   This is the default content type  Forms submitted with this content   type must be encoded as follows   Relevant portion of the JSON spec        IANA Considerations   The MIME media type for JSON text is application json

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multipart form-data   is used when you want to upload files to the server  Please check this article for details

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It looks like people answered the first part of your question  use application json    For the second part  It is perfectly legal to send query parameters in a HTTP POST Request   Example   POST  members id 1234 HTTP 1 1 Host  www example com Content-Type  application json    email   user example com     Query parameters are commonly used in a POST request to refer to an existing resource  The above example would update the email address of an existing member with the id of 1234

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