Content Type of file uploaded in multipart/form-data request

[myroslav]

curl support file Content-Type via following syntax:

curl --form "file=@page.pdf;type=application/pdf" http://httpbin.org/post
{
  "args": {}, 
  "data": "", 
  "files": {
    "file":
"data:application/pdf;base64,H4sICI0fXVQAA3BhZ2UucGRmAAvOz01VCE7MLchJVQhITE8FAAyOwbUQAAAA"
  }, 
  "form": {}, 
  "headers": {
    "Accept": "*/*", 
    "Connect-Time": "1", 
    "Connection": "close", 
    "Content-Length": "236", 
    "Content-Type": "multipart/form-data;
    boundary=------------------------7d87eceb5520850c", 
    "Host": "httpbin.org", 
    "Total-Route-Time": "0", 
    "User-Agent": "curl/7.32.0", 
    "Via": "1.1 vegur", 
    "X-Request-Id": "9f20c4bc-343b-4bc2-814d-9b2b9de75f83"
  }, 
  "json": null, 
  "origin": "213.130.19.243", 
  "url": "http://httpbin.org/post"
}

It look like the content it generates is something like:

POST /post HTTP/1.1
Accept: */*
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=38516d25820c4a9aad05f1e42cb442f4
Host: httpbin.org

--38516d25820c4a9aad05f1e42cb442f4
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="file"; filename="page.pdf"
Content-Type: application/pdf
Content-Encoding: base64

H4sICI0fXVQAA3BhZ2UucGRmAAvOz01VCE7MLchJVQhITE8FAAyOwbUQAAAA
--38516d25820c4a9aad05f1e42cb442f4--

And I cannot achieve the same result in HTTPie. Any hints are appreciated.

[benjaminr]

Not sure exactly how close you need it to the original, but this might be a good starting point:

http -f http://httpbin.org/post file@page.pdf

[myroslav]

I cannot make it provide Content-Type header inside the multipart/form-data container, and that is essential in our case.

[jkbrzt]

@myroslav it's a bug/missing feature. Will look into that.

[jeltz]

Would it be possible to use a curl-like syntax with semicolon?

curl -F "web=@index.html;type=text/html" url.com 

[jkbrzt]

@jeltz yes, good idea

[wodny]

Hi, I've pushed a refined version of PR #285 - PR #398 so it gets green light on TravisCI.

[cutz]

@jkbrzt any update on getting #398 merged? I'd be willing to take a stab at a pull request to support specifying the type as part of the value if you are waiting on that.

[igr]

yeah, it would be cool if this thing can get in. do you know when?

[jocull]

+1

[lpellegr]

👍

[eskatos]

🎉
Thanks!