Sending application/x-www-form-urlencoded data with restclient

Question

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?

interesting because talking about Restful API over HTTP, the most popular content-types I met are application/xml & application/json. Browsing the [examples](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pashky/restclient.el/master/examples/httpbin) I did not see anything related to application/x-www-form-urlencoded :( — Nsukami _, Dec 24 '14 at 02:25
This is being investiguated at https://github.com/pashky/restclient.el/issues/71 — Silex, Mar 24 '15 at 13:39

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 02 '15 at 13:37

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

#

you can also append a dummy formparam to "catch" the newline. — Cheeso, Mar 19 '16 at 22:39

Sending application/x-www-form-urlencoded data with restclient

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