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When I use restclient with Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded, restclient sends newlines with the data.

For example:

POST :domain/thing
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
data=foobar

The endpoint receives a form with the value 'data': 'foobar\n'.

I could modify require-final-newline such that the last query in the file would work properly, but since requests are separated by comment lines, I still get the extra newlines for all preceding requests.

How can I get restclient to pass the forms correctly?

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  • interesting because talking about Restful API over HTTP, the most popular content-types I met are application/xml & application/json. Browsing the examples I did not see anything related to application/x-www-form-urlencoded :(
    – Nsukami _
    Dec 24, 2014 at 2:25
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    This is being investiguated at github.com/pashky/restclient.el/issues/71
    – Silex
    Mar 24, 2015 at 13:39

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In the current version, if you make sure that each of your requests has a comment line immediately succeeding it, then the forms will be passed correctly.

For example, the following code will send 'data':'foobar', with no extra newline. The content length received by netcat is exactly 11, which was what we wanted.

POST :domain/thing
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
data=foobar
#

The block below, on the other hand, returns 'data': 'foobar\n' with a content length of 12.

POST :domain/thing
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
data=foobar

#
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  • you can also append a dummy formparam to "catch" the newline.
    – Cheeso
    Mar 19, 2016 at 22:39

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