Post Data Tab

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This tab displays the parameters contained in the POST, the mime type used to encode them and the size of POST data.

Most POST requests use one of the following mime types:

application/x-www-form-urlencoded

The parameter includes names, values. A form data set is represented in this media type as follows:

1.

The form field names and values are escaped: space characters are replaced by `+', and then reserved characters are escaped as per [URL]; that is, non-alphanumeric characters are replaced by `%HH', a percent sign and two hexadecimal digits representing the ASCII code of the character. Line breaks, as in multi-line text field values, are represented as CR LF pairs, i.e. `%0D%0A'.

2.

The fields are listed in the order they appear in the document with the name separated from the value by `=' and the pairs separated from each other by `&'. Fields with null values may be omitted. In particular, unselected radio buttons and check boxes should not appear in the encoded data, but hidden fields with VALUE attributes present should. The parameter includes names and values. This is the same format as a query string, but the string is passed in the request body rather than the URL.

multi part/form-data

The parameter includes names, values, filename,attributes and size. This passes the raw, unescaped data the POST body by using a marker to define the data boundaries, see more [www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2388.html].

The size column shows the total size in bytes of the parameter name and value in the HTTP request message.