8. Media Type Registration for multipart/form-data

This section is the media type registration using the template from [RFC6838].

Type name: multipart

Subtype name: form-data

Required parameters: boundary

Optional parameters: none

Encoding considerations: Common use is BINARY. In limited use (or transports that restrict the encoding to 7bit or 8bit), each part is encoded separately using Content-Transfer-Encoding; see Section 4.7.

Security considerations: See Section 7 of this document.

Interoperability considerations: This document makes several recommendations for interoperability with deployed implementations, including Section 4.7.

Published specification: This document.

Applications that use this media type: Numerous web browsers, servers, and web applications.

Fragment identifier considerations: None; fragment identifiers are not defined for this type.

Additional information:

Deprecated alias names for this type: N/A
Magic number(s): N/A
File extension(s): N/A
Macintosh file type code(s): N/A

Person & email address to contact for further information: Author of this document.

Intended usage: COMMON

Restrictions on usage: none

Author: Author of this document.

Change controller: IETF

Provisional registration: N/A