HTTP Post Multipart Tool for testing

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does anyone know a little test tool (like Poster / RestTool for Firefox) that is able to upload a file and send a text body within the same post request (Multipart)?

Does it need to be a Firefox add-on? Or would a stand-alone tool suffice? — Avi Flax, Sep 15 '11 at 14:54

manuel aldana · Accepted Answer · 2011-09-15T15:29:13.913

It is not a firefox-addon, but what I can really recommend is to use curl tool. It fits perfect when playing around with RESTful HTTP APIs because it is very close to HTTP protocol. Because it is CLI based it is more flexible as graphical addon (e.g. you can mail around or can document your api with sample calls).

E.g. doing a multipart request with curl would be:


# with '-v' verbose-switch you see some headers
# with '-F' you are "activating" single multiparts
# with '@' you are referencing file
curl -v -F myPartName1=@file1.txt -F myPartName2=@file2.txt http://host.com/your/multipart/endpoint

# if server needs it you can also pass Content-Type with single files
... -F "myPartName1=@file1.txt;type=text/plain" ...

What kind of multipart do you expect on server-side (e.g. multipart/form-data or multipart/mixed).

Is there a reason why it has to be a firefox addon? I have seen people using RestClient, but I never saw it working with multipart.

After a minute of googling i still don´t get the difference between multipart/form-data and multipart/mixed. But i develope the server-side AND the client side and so have full control over the communication. What i want to do is sent 1 or more files to a PHP script but also send some Key-Values within the Post. Important to me is that the file is present within the global $_FILES variable and the key-value pairs are in $_POST. — SeBo, Sep 16 '11 at 11:21

score 2 · Answer 2 · edited Jul 09 '14 at 09:22

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You can use Firefox poster add-on to send HTTP posts with multipart.

Select "Parameters" tab
Enter the multipart "Name" and "Value"
Press "Add/Change"
Select "Content to Send" tab
Press "Body from Parameters"
Enter your URL and User Auth, as required
Press"POST"

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answered Jul 09 '14 at 08:54

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missing links over here? – gumuruh Jan 18 '22 at 04:26

score 2 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:30

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For Chrome/Chromium there is the excellent Postman app/extension: http://www.getpostman.com/ .

For a brief visual tutorial you can check: https://stackoverflow.com/a/16022213/1667104 .

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answered Oct 08 '14 at 10:48

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 08 '14 at 15:06

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Firefox has a few:

and poster as mentioned earlier by @joff

answered Oct 08 '14 at 15:06

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but how to include a file to be posted while doing POST request anyway? – gumuruh Jan 18 '22 at 04:26

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Sep 16 '11 at 15:40

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I like to include http://aminus.net/wiki/Okapi in most of my HTTP projects these days.

answered Sep 16 '11 at 15:40

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HTTP Post Multipart Tool for testing

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