General Answer. The general answer to your question is that it depends. And you get to decide by specifying what your "Content-Type" is in the HTTP headers. A value of "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" means that your POST body will need to be URL encoded just like a GET parameter string.
How is HTTP POST data encoded?
- POST is the HTTP method that was invented to send data to a receiving web application, and it is how most common HTML forms on the web works. ...
- When the data is sent by a browser after data have been filled in a form, it will send it URL encoded, as a serialized name=value pairs separated with ampersand symbols ( & ).
What is URL encoded POST?
URL-Encoded Form is a widely-supported encoding on the web. It's most often used for serializing web forms sent via POST requests. This encoding is also used to send structured data in URL query strings. It is a relatively efficient encoding for sending small amounts of data.
