Back to Basics: HTTP Requests in Rails Apps

Request bodies are defined by a form's markup. In the form tag there is an attribute called enctype , this attribute tells the browser how to encode the form data. There are several different values this attribute can have. The default is application/x-www-form-urlencoded , which tells the browser to encode all of the values. If a form includes a file upload an enctype of multipart/form-data should be used. This encodes none of the values. Finally, you can set the enctype to text/plain this converts spaces, but leaves all other characters unencoded. Inside the inside the form element we have input elements. These elements will render as assorted input types in our website. Each input element in the form should have a name attribute. This name attribute tells the browser what to name the data specified in that input in the message body. The type attribute tells the browser ...

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