Http request with form-data

[Oleksii]

When using the Http Request, I specify the body type as Form-Data. The server to which the request is sent expects a MultipartFile with the key ‘file’ and the value as the file itself. However, I can’t add a file to the ‘value’ field, only a text value.

If I send the request in the way shown in the screenshot, the server responds that it doesn’t receive the file.
As a workaround, in the new version I temporarily save the file to disk and then send it using the “Execute Command” node.
But I feel like this is not an optimal approach.

[hubschrauber]

Looks like you might just need to switch the parameter type from Form-Data to n8n Binary File.

[Oleksii]

Yes, that looks like the simplest option, but unfortunately, it doesn’t work that way.