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multipart

Handling multipart requests with JSON and file uploads in ASP.NET Core

Suppose we’re writing an API for a blog. Our “create post” endpoint should receive the title, body, tags and an image to display at the top of the post. This raises a question: how do we send the image? There are at least 3 options: Embed the image bytes as base64 in the JSON payload, e.g. { "title": "My first blog post", "body": "This is going to be the best blog EVER!