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=== Large edits === <!--T:30-->
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<translate><!--T:31--> POST requests containing large amounts of text content (8000+ characters) should be sent with <tvar name=1><code>Content-Type: multipart/form-data</code></tvar> indicated in the [[<tvar name=2>devmo:Web/HTTP/Headers</tvar>|header]].</translate>
<translate><!--T:32--> Because <tvar name=1><code>multipart/form-data</code></tvar> does not need to add HTML escape characters (i.e., [[<tvar name=2>devmo:Glossary/percent-encoding</tvar>|percent encoding]]) for spaces and punctuation, the amount of data passed will subsequently be much smaller than the percent-encoded equivalent.</translate>

<translate><!--T:33--> However, there is still some overhead added by <tvar name=1><code>multipart/form-data</code></tvar> -- roughly, 160 bytes per parameter.</translate>
<translate><!--T:34--> For short messages that don't require adding many escape characters, this amount of overhead can be inefficient, and percent-encoding is preferred.</translate><ref>
https://stackoverflow.com/a/4073451
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Note that in our [[<tvar name=1>#Example</tvar>|Python sample code]], the request is percent-encoded by default.
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<translate><!--T:36--> See [[<tvar name=1>devmo:Web/HTTP/Headers/Content-Type</tvar>|the MDN web docs]] for a more technical discussion of content-type and POST requests.</translate>
<translate><!--T:37--> See [<tvar name=url>http://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/user/quickstart/#more-complicated-post-requests</tvar> the Python Requests documentation] for how to pass <tvar name=1><code>multipart/form-data</code></tvar> using syntax similar to our Python sample code.</translate>

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