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Using form-data with request, question about boundary

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Hi,

I’m using form-data with request module, and I want to use a custom boundary.

I want my request to look like :

------WebKitFormBoundaryCIkXuNWC8OhEuT3S
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="file"; filename="myfile.pdf"
Content-Type: application/pdf

FILE_CONTENT

------WebKitFormBoundaryCIkXuNWC8OhEuT3S
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="submitfile"

TÃ©lÃ©charger
------WebKitFormBoundaryCIkXuNWC8OhEuT3S--

Here is what my code looks like :

var boundary = "------WebKitFormBoundaryUucA6DiAhQeYNgIm";
options["preambleCRLF"] = true ;
options["postambleCRLF"] = true ;
 var formData = {
    'file': fs.createReadStream(filePath),
    'submitfile' : 'Télécharger',
     boundary : boundary
 };
options["formData"] = formData ;
request.post(options, function(err, resp, body){
...

But It’s not working, I 'm sending this :


----------------------------063289265105652106385340
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="file"; filename="myfile.pdf"
Content-Type: application/pdf

FILE_CONTENT

In the form-data doc I saw something interesting for my problem :

var CRLF = '\r\n';
var form = new FormData();

var options = {
  header: CRLF + '--' + form.getBoundary() + CRLF + 'X-Custom-Header: 123' + CRLF + CRLF,
  knownLength: 1
};

But since I’m using it with request I don’t really know how could I do this.

Thank you