Content-Type delimiter

Question

Does anyone know which RFC defines how the HTTP content-type header is to be delimited? I'm posting requests to a restful service using this header:

Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=mysvcboundary

This format of course is what I see in fiddler, chrome tools etc... and also found the same format here: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html

The only reference I see to how the content-type tag is to be delimited is here: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1867

But the 1867 RFC seems to be related to HTML file upload which I assume is different than sending a POST request to restful service. Is this assumption correct?

Answer 1

The "Content-Type" header field is defined by HTTP (RFC 2616). The "multipart/form-data" media type is defined by RFC 7578 (a registry of values is maintained by IANA at http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types ).

So yes, it's the same type as used by HTML forms.