Understanding multipart/form-data and application/x-www-urlencoded content-type data transfers
HTTP protocol is a very versatile application layer protocol that supports different type of data transfer between client/server applications. Sending key-value pairs, text files, HTML files and binary files back and forth is an important facility in form based applications.
In this video, I look at what actually goes on wire to the server in form data as well as url encoded key/value pairs.