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Fetch API: Request/Response.formData

Category

Network / Connectivity

Type

New or changed feature

Status

Enabled by default (Chrome 60)

Intent stage

None

Summary

Allows multipart/form-data and application/x-www-form-urlencoded fetch requests and responses to be consumed and parsed into FormData objects.

Standards & signals

• Specification: https://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/#dom-body-formdata
• Firefox: Shipped/Shipping
• Safari: No signal
• Web developers: Positive
• Tracking bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=718393

Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Body https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Body/formData

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