[HTTPCLIENT-1332] Missing content-type MultipartEntity Request

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Invalid
• Affects Version/s: 4.2.3
• Component/s: HttpClient (classic)
• Labels: content-type multipart multipart/form-data
• Environment: OS: Windows 7 (Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7600]); JDK: jdk1.7.0_13; ; Libs:; - httpclient-4.2.3.jar; - httpcore-4.2.2.jar; - httpmime-4.2.3.jar
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Victor Freire
• Created: 01/Apr/13 21:18
• Updated: 20/Sep/16 19:32
• Resolved: 02/Apr/13 09:28

Description

• • • Given the following code:

HttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
MultipartEntity entity = new MultipartEntity(HttpMultipartMode.BROWSER_COMPATIBLE);
entity.addPart("metadata", new StringBody("

{ \"number\": 4}

", "application/json", Charset.forName("UTF-8")));
HttpPost httpPost = new HttpPost("http://localhost:8080/");
httpPost.setEntity(entity);
httpClient.execute(httpPost);

• • • The request comes out without the requested content-type ("application/json") and cannot be interpreted by the application server. There should be a "Content-Type: application/json" right after Content-Disposition in the request body below.

POST /boards/publish/123/images/an_image_field_key
Host: localhost:8080
Content-type: multipart/form-data; boundary=hRc10UDcwcHyZlNbQwa2NaN-Qq4FxhIq3VHUoKk0
Content-length: 282
Connection: Keep-Alive
User-agent: Apache-HttpClient/4.2.3 (java 1.5)

--hRc10UDcwcHyZlNbQwa2NaN-Qq4FxhIq3VHUoKk0
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="metadata"

{ "number": 4}

-hRc10UDcwcHyZlNbQwa2NaN-Qq4FxhIq3VHUoKk0-