diff --git a/lib/rack/request.rb b/lib/rack/request.rb
index c1e272a61..0557837bb 100644
--- a/lib/rack/request.rb
+++ b/lib/rack/request.rb
@@ -92,6 +92,14 @@ def head?;           request_method == "HEAD"                 end
       'multipart/form-data'
     ]
 
+    # The set of media-types. Requests that do not indicate
+    # one of the media types presents in this list will not be eligible
+    # for param parsing like soap attachments or generic multiparts
+    PARSEABLE_DATA_MEDIA_TYPES = [
+      'multipart/related',
+      'multipart/mixed'
+    ]  
+
     # Determine whether the request body contains form-data by checking
     # the request media_type against registered form-data media-types:
     # "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" and "multipart/form-data". The
@@ -101,6 +109,12 @@ def form_data?
       FORM_DATA_MEDIA_TYPES.include?(media_type)
     end
 
+    # Determine whether the request body contains data by checking
+    # the request media_type against registered parse-data media-types
+    def parseable_data?
+      PARSEABLE_DATA_MEDIA_TYPES.include?(media_type)
+    end
+
     # Returns the data recieved in the query string.
     def GET
       if @env["rack.request.query_string"] == query_string
@@ -119,7 +133,7 @@ def GET
     def POST
       if @env["rack.request.form_input"].eql? @env["rack.input"]
         @env["rack.request.form_hash"]
-      elsif form_data?
+      elsif form_data? || parseable_data?
         @env["rack.request.form_input"] = @env["rack.input"]
         unless @env["rack.request.form_hash"] =
             Utils::Multipart.parse_multipart(env)
diff --git a/lib/rack/utils.rb b/lib/rack/utils.rb
index 7acc10d28..01519ef43 100644
--- a/lib/rack/utils.rb
+++ b/lib/rack/utils.rb
@@ -293,7 +293,7 @@ module Multipart
 
       def self.parse_multipart(env)
         unless env['CONTENT_TYPE'] =~
-            %r|\Amultipart/form-data.*boundary=\"?([^\";,]+)\"?|n
+            %r|\Amultipart/.*boundary=\"?([^\";,]+)\"?|n
           nil
         else
           boundary = "--#{$1}"
@@ -319,15 +319,15 @@ def self.parse_multipart(env)
             filename = content_type = name = nil
 
             until head && buf =~ rx
-              if !head && i = buf.index("\r\n\r\n")
+              if !head && i = buf.index(EOL+EOL)
                 head = buf.slice!(0, i+2) # First \r\n
                 buf.slice!(0, 2)          # Second \r\n
 
                 filename = head[/Content-Disposition:.* filename="?([^\";]*)"?/ni, 1]
-                content_type = head[/Content-Type: (.*)\r\n/ni, 1]
-                name = head[/Content-Disposition:.* name="?([^\";]*)"?/ni, 1]
+                content_type = head[/Content-Type: (.*)#{EOL}/ni, 1]
+                name = head[/Content-Disposition:.*\s+name="?([^\";]*)"?/ni, 1] || head[/Content-ID:\s*([^#{EOL}]*)/ni, 1]
 
-                if filename
+                if content_type || filename
                   body = Tempfile.new("RackMultipart")
                   body.binmode  if body.respond_to?(:binmode)
                 end
@@ -369,6 +369,12 @@ def self.parse_multipart(env)
 
               data = {:filename => filename, :type => content_type,
                       :name => name, :tempfile => body, :head => head}
+            elsif !filename && content_type
+              body.rewind
+              
+              # Generic multipart cases, not coming from a form
+              data = {:type => content_type,
+                      :name => name, :tempfile => body, :head => head}
             else
               data = body
             end