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Form data encoding Browsers roundup

In an HTML form element, the enctype attribute specifies how the data will be encoded when it is POSTed to the web server. Traditionally, there are two accepted content types for HTML forms:

  • application/x-www-form-urlencoded (the default value)
  • multipart/form-data

But there is nothing to stop someone from specifying whatever enctype value that they want (e.g., "application/x-foo"). Of course specifying your own random value doesn't mean that the browser will understand how to submit it or the web server will understand how to process it.

The following lists how some popular browsers respond to unexpected but technically valid enctype values. Each of the MIME types from this list was tested. The following browsers were tested:

  • Safari - Mac OS X
  • Safari - Windows
  • Konqueror - Linux
  • Mozilla Firefox - Mac OS X
  • Mozilla Firefox - Windows
  • Mozilla Firefox - Linux
  • Opera - Mac OS X
  • Opera - Windows
  • Opera - Linux
  • Internet Explorer 7 - Windows
  • Internet Explorer 6 - Windows
  • Internet Explorer 5 - Mac OS X

Go straight to the conclusions. Or, try some samples yourself.

Safari - Mac OS X

Version Tested: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/419.3 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/419.3

Safari submits the following content types:

  • application/x-www-form-urlencoded
  • multipart/form-data
  • text/plain

The following rules are applied based on the value of enctype:

Specified enctypeSubmitted Content-TypeSample (omitted)application/x-www-form-urlencoded(omitted) application/x-www-form-urlencodedapplication/x-www-form-urlencodedapplication/x-www-form-urlencoded multipart/form-datamultipart/form-datamultipart/form-data contains the word multipartmultipart/form-datamultipart/example contains the word form-datamultipart/form-dataexample/form-data contains the word texttext/plain (content-type specifies nonexistent MIME boundary and posted data is urlencoded)text/example contains the word plaintext/plain (content-type specifies nonexistent MIME boundary and posted data is urlencoded)example/plain anything elseapplication/x-www-form-urlencodedexample/example
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Safari - Windows

Version Tested: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en) AppleWebKit/522.15.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0.3 Safari/522.15.5

Safari submits the following content types:

  • application/x-www-form-urlencoded
  • multipart/form-data
  • text/plain

The following rules are applied based on the value of enctype:

Specified enctypeSubmitted Content-TypeSample (omitted)application/x-www-form-urlencoded(omitted) application/x-www-form-urlencodedapplication/x-www-form-urlencodedapplication/x-www-form-urlencoded multipart/form-datamultipart/form-datamultipart/form-data contains the word multipartmultipart/form-datamultipart/example contains the word form-datamultipart/form-dataexample/form-data contains the word texttext/plain (content-type specifies empty MIME boundary and posted data is urlencoded)text/example contains the word plaintext/plain (content-type specifies empty MIME boundary and posted data is urlencoded)example/plain anything elseapplication/x-www-form-urlencodedexample/example
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Konqueror - Linux

Version Tested: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.5; Linux) KHTML/3.5.7 (like Gecko)

Konqueror submits the following content types:

  • application/x-www-form-urlencoded
  • multipart/form-data
  • text/plain

The following rules are applied based on the value of enctype:

Specified enctypeSubmitted Content-TypeSample (omitted)application/x-www-form-urlencoded(omitted) application/x-www-form-urlencodedapplication/x-www-form-urlencodedapplication/x-www-form-urlencoded multipart/form-datamultipart/form-datamultipart/form-data contains the word multipartmultipart/form-datamultipart/example contains the word form-datamultipart/form-dataexample/form-data contains the word texttext/plain (content-type specifies nonexistent MIME boundary and posted data is urlencoded)text/example contains the word plaintext/plain (content-type specifies nonexistent MIME boundary and posted data is urlencoded)example/plain anything elseapplication/x-www-form-urlencodedexample/example
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Mozilla Firefox - Mac OS X

Version Tested: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.7) Gecko/20070914 Firefox/2.0.0.7

Opera submits the following content types:

  • application/x-www-form-urlencoded
  • multipart/form-data
  • text/plain

The following rules are applied based on the value of enctype:

Specified enctypeSubmitted Content-TypeSample (omitted)application/x-www-form-urlencoded(omitted) application/x-www-form-urlencodedapplication/x-www-form-urlencodedapplication/x-www-form-urlencoded multipart/form-datamultipart/form-datamultipart/form-data text/plaintext/plaintext/plain anything elseapplication/x-www-form-urlencodedexample/example
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Mozilla Firefox - Windows

Version Tested: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.7) Gecko/20070914 Firefox/2.0.0.7

Opera submits the following content types:

  • application/x-www-form-urlencoded
  • multipart/form-data
  • text/plain

The following rules are applied based on the value of enctype:

Specified enctypeSubmitted Content-TypeSample (omitted)application/x-www-form-urlencoded(omitted) application/x-www-form-urlencodedapplication/x-www-form-urlencodedapplication/x-www-form-urlencoded multipart/form-datamultipart/form-datamultipart/form-data text/plaintext/plaintext/plain anything elseapplication/x-www-form-urlencodedexample/example
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Mozilla Firefox - Linux

Version Tested: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.7) Gecko/20070914 Firefox/2.0.0.7

Opera submits the following content types:

  • application/x-www-form-urlencoded
  • multipart/form-data
  • text/plain

The following rules are applied based on the value of enctype:

Specified enctypeSubmitted Content-TypeSample (omitted)application/x-www-form-urlencoded(omitted) application/x-www-form-urlencodedapplication/x-www-form-urlencodedapplication/x-www-form-urlencoded multipart/form-datamultipart/form-datamultipart/form-data text/plaintext/plaintext/plain anything elseapplication/x-www-form-urlencodedexample/example
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Opera - Mac OS X

Version Tested: Opera/9.23 (Macintosh; PPC Mac OS X; U; en)

Opera submits the following content types:

  • application/x-www-form-urlencoded
  • multipart/form-data
  • text/plain

The following rules are applied based on the value of enctype:

Specified enctypeSubmitted Content-TypeSample (omitted)application/x-www-form-urlencoded(omitted) application/x-www-form-urlencodedapplication/x-www-form-urlencodedapplication/x-www-form-urlencoded multipart/form-datamultipart/form-datamultipart/form-data text/plaintext/plaintext/plain anything elseapplication/x-www-form-urlencodedexample/example
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Opera - Windows

Version Tested: Opera/9.23 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en)

Opera submits the following content types:

  • application/x-www-form-urlencoded
  • multipart/form-data
  • text/plain

The following rules are applied based on the value of enctype:

Specified enctypeSubmitted Content-TypeSample (omitted)application/x-www-form-urlencoded(omitted) application/x-www-form-urlencodedapplication/x-www-form-urlencodedapplication/x-www-form-urlencoded multipart/form-datamultipart/form-datamultipart/form-data text/plaintext/plaintext/plain anything elseapplication/x-www-form-urlencodedexample/example
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Opera - Linux

Version Tested: Opera/9.23 (X11; Linux i686; U; en)

Opera submits the following content types:

  • application/x-www-form-urlencoded
  • multipart/form-data
  • text/plain

The following rules are applied based on the value of enctype:

Specified enctypeSubmitted Content-TypeSample (omitted)application/x-www-form-urlencoded(omitted) application/x-www-form-urlencodedapplication/x-www-form-urlencodedapplication/x-www-form-urlencoded multipart/form-datamultipart/form-datamultipart/form-data text/plaintext/plaintext/plain anything elseapplication/x-www-form-urlencodedexample/example
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Internet Explorer 7 - Windows

Version Tested: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.2; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)

IE submits the following content types:

  • application/x-www-form-urlencoded
  • multipart/form-data
  • text/plain

The following rules are applied based on the value of enctype:

Specified enctypeSubmitted Content-TypeSample (omitted)application/x-www-form-urlencoded(omitted) application/x-www-form-urlencodedapplication/x-www-form-urlencodedapplication/x-www-form-urlencoded multipart/form-datamultipart/form-datamultipart/form-data text/plaintext/plaintext/plain anything elseapplication/x-www-form-urlencodedexample/example
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Internet Explorer 6 - Windows

Version Tested: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)

IE submits the following content types:

  • application/x-www-form-urlencoded
  • multipart/form-data
  • text/plain

The following rules are applied based on the value of enctype:

Specified enctypeSubmitted Content-TypeSample (omitted)application/x-www-form-urlencoded(omitted) application/x-www-form-urlencodedapplication/x-www-form-urlencodedapplication/x-www-form-urlencoded multipart/form-datamultipart/form-datamultipart/form-data text/plaintext/plaintext/plain anything elseapplication/x-www-form-urlencodedexample/example
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Internet Explorer 5 - Mac OS X

Version Tested:

IE submits the following content types:

  • application/x-www-form-urlencoded
  • multipart/form-data

The following rules are applied based on the value of enctype:

Specified enctypeSubmitted Content-TypeSample (omitted)application/x-www-form-urlencoded(omitted) application/x-www-form-urlencodedapplication/x-www-form-urlencodedapplication/x-www-form-urlencoded multipart/form-datamultipart/form-datamultipart/form-data anything elseapplication/x-www-form-urlencodedexample/example

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