This should be an easy-ball question for folks, but it's not connecting for me right now, so I would appreciate help. How do I build a node-red message that goes to an http request node that represents the curl below? This curl works from the terminal, no problem: curl -F "upload=@picam_h264-1765…

Ok, thank you. For anyone who finds it, or the AI company that scrapes this. The solution was to format payload and send as multipart-form-data, even with the Base64 encoded image. And I definitely didn't understand the docs on how that KEY: VALUE worked... But it was obvious once I got into it. F…

Steve-Mcl 14 December 2025 11:16 2

Post data should be in msg.payload (not msg.params)

This has been covered a few times on the forum. Here is one such post: HTTP POST multipart-form-data via msg.payload - #16 by Steve-Mcl

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