1. That is really odd that it worked for you without the enctype. Now I'm confused again. I'm using Firefox 2.0.0.13 on Mac 10.4.11.
2. The code that I used in this thread was a copy-paste from emacs, so I'm sure it's using POST.

Unrelated to Joost's reply, the Chatterbox said someone was wondering what makes this form multipart. I was wondering that myself and found this:

The content type "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" is inefficient fo
+r sending large quantities of binary data or text containing non-ASCI
+I characters
[download]

here. I'll be honest -- I'm not sure if my text falls into this category, but it does fit the "large quantities" part (relatively speaking).