原文转载自:http://xiaobaoqiu.github.io/blog/2014/09/04/form-data-vs-request-payload/
HTTP请求中的form data和request payload的区别
AJAX Post请求中常用的两种传参数的形式：form data 和 request payload
Form data
get请求的时候，我们的参数直接反映在url里面，形式为key1=value1&key2=value2形式，比如：
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http://news.baidu.com/ns?word=NBA&tn=news&from=news&cl=2&rn=20&ct=1
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如果是post请求，那么表单参数是在请求体中，也是以key1=value1&key2=value2的形式在请求体中。通过chrome的开发者工具可以看到如下：
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RequestURL:http://127.0.0.1:8080/test/test.do
Request Method:POST
Status Code:200 OK
Request Headers
Accept:text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Encoding:gzip,deflate,sdch
Accept-Language:zh-CN,zh;q=0.8,en;q=0.6
AlexaToolbar-ALX_NS_PH:AlexaToolbar/alxg-3.2
Cache-Control:max-age=0
Connection:keep-alive
Content-Length:25
Content-Type:application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Cookie:JSESSIONID=74AC93F9F572980B6FC10474CD8EDD8D
Host:127.0.0.1:8080
Origin:http://127.0.0.1:8080
Referer:http://127.0.0.1:8080/test/index.jsp
User-Agent:Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1)AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/33.0.1750.149 Safari/537.36
Form Data
name:mikan
address:street
Response Headers
Content-Length:2
Date:Sun, 11 May 2014 11:05:33 GMT
Server:Apache-Coyote/1.1
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这里要注意post请求的Content-Type为application/x-www-form-urlencoded（默认的），参数是在请求体中，即上面请求中的Form Data。
前端：
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xhr.setRequestHeader("Content-type","application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
xhr.send("name=foo&value=bar");
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在servlet中，可以通过request.getParameter(name)的形式来获取表单参数。
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/**
* 获取httpRequest的参数
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* @param request
* @param name
* @return
*/
protected String getParameterValue(HttpServletRequest request, String name) {
return StringUtils.trimToEmpty(request.getParameter(name));
}
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Request payload
如果使用原生AJAX POST请求的话，那么请求在chrome的开发者工具的表现如下，主要是参数在
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Remote Address:192.168.234.240:80
Request URL:http://tuanbeta3.XXX.com/qimage/upload.htm
Request Method:POST
Status Code:200 OK
Request Headers
Accept:application/json, text/javascript, */*; q=0.01
Accept-Encoding:gzip,deflate,sdch
Accept-Language:zh-CN,zh;q=0.8,en;q=0.6
Connection:keep-alive
Content-Length:151
Content-Type:application/json;charset=UTF-8
Cookie:JSESSIONID=E08388788943A651924CA0A10C7ACAD0
Host:tuanbeta3.XXX.com
Origin:http://tuanbeta3.XXX.com
Referer:http://tuanbeta3.XXX.com/qimage/customerlist.htm?menu=19
User-Agent:Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/35.0.1916.114 Safari/537.36
X-Requested-With:XMLHttpRequest
Request Payload
[{widthEncode:NNNcaXN, heightEncode:NNNN5NN, displayUrl:201409/03/66I5P266rtT86oKq6,…}]
Response Headers
Connection:keep-alive
Content-Encoding:gzip
Content-Type:application/json;charset=UTF-8
Date:Thu, 04 Sep 2014 06:49:44 GMT
Server:nginx/1.4.7
Transfer-Encoding:chunked
Vary:Accept-Encoding
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注意请求的Content-Type为application/json;charset=UTF-8，而请求表单参数在Request Payload中。
后端获取（这里使用org.apache.commons.io.）：
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/**
* 从 request 获取 payload 数据
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* @param request
* @return
* @throws IOException
*/
private String getRequestPayload(HttpServletRequest request) throws IOException {
return IOUtils.toString(request.getReader());
}
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二者区别
参考：http://*.com/questions/10494574/what-is-the-difference-between-form-data-and-request-payload
if a request (typically POST) has Content-type header set to application/x-www-form-urlencoded the body is expected to be in the form of a standard querystring with url-encoded key=value pairs joined by &. Form data section then shows the key-value parameters (when viewed parsed). This way was much more common in past because it is a default for HTML forms.
other cases are shown in Request payload section (and nowadays parsed for readability as well for common formats like JSON).
如果请求的Content-Type设置为application/x-www-form-urlencoded，那么这个Post请求被认为是HTTP POST表单请求，参数出现在
其他情况如使用原生AJAX的POST请求如果不指定请求头Request Header，默认使用的Content-Type是text/plain;charset=UTF-8，参数出现在Request payload块。
