Why not always use enctype="multipart/form-data"?

enctype, forms, html

Solution

`multipart/form-data` is a lot bulkier than `application/x-www-form-urlencoded`; the latter is just a bunch of keys and values (and can be parsed the same way whether for `GET` or `POST`), whereas the former requires full MIME support, and is thus more useful when you have data that can't simply be represented as key/value pairs.

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