Support multipart/form-data

[gbrlsnchs]

Does this plugin only accept JSON requests? This was not clear in docs, and I also wasn't able to do form-data requests.

[nicwest]

Good question!

In theory yes, if curl supports it then the plugin should support it.

It would look something like this:

POST http://httpbin.org/post HTTP/1.1
Host: httpbin.org
Content-Type: multipart/form-data;boundary="boundary"
Content-Length: 174

--boundary
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="field1"

value1
--boundary
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="field2"; filename="example.txt"

value2
--boundary--


HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Mon, 24 May 2021 11:51:12 GMT
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: 463
Connection: keep-alive
Server: gunicorn/19.9.0
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true

{
  "args": {}, 
  "data": "", 
  "files": {
    "field2": "value2"
  }, 
  "form": {
    "field1": "value1"
  }, 
  "headers": {
    "Accept": "*/*", 
    "Content-Length": "174", 
    "Content-Type": "multipart/form-data;boundary=boundary", 
    "Host": "httpbin.org", 
    "User-Agent": "curl/7.68.0", 
    "X-Amzn-Trace-Id": "Root=1-60ab9330-6da5fc59153f7d211345873c"
  }, 
  "json": null, 
  "origin": "79.173.133.167", 
  "url": "http://httpbin.org/post"
}

Some boundary defining helper methods might be helpful.

[sebiwi]

@nicwest is it possible to include files in the form using vim-http?

[nicwest]

@sebiwi at the moment it would only work if you copy the body of the text over into a boundary similar to the above example.

If someone can come up with a sensible way in-lining files I'm more than happy to merge that.