I like that idea. I don't see any downsides for that. Are there
performance differences when submitting an multipart form?

On Jun 14, 9:33 pm, joost <[email protected]> wrote:
> Forms without explicit enctype are submitted as application/x-www-form-
> urlencoded. This is the default behaviour in Rails. However, this
> enctype does not allow transmission of binary data (files).
>
> Would it not make sense to specify the enctype multipart/form-data by
> default instead? i.e. all the form_for helpers would add this enctype
> to the form tag, unless overriden by the developer.
>
> This way, file uploads "just work" and normal key/value pairs continue
> to work as well. There is no downside. I browsed through lighthouse
> and only found obscure NN4 bugs related to multipart/form-data, which
> I believe we can safely ignore. Even IE4 supports this enctype.
>
> I can fork and make this change, but would like to float this idea
> beforehand.

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