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8. Media Type Registration for multipart/form-data

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 RFC7578.

Intended usage: COMMON

Restrictions on usage: none

Author: Author of RFC7578.

Change controller: IETF

Provisional registration: N/A