What are the differences between application/json and application/x-www-form-urlencoded?

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The first case is telling the web server that you are posting JSON data as in:

{"Name": "John Smith", "Age": 23}

The second case is telling the web server that you will be encoding the parameters in the URL:

Name=John+Smith&Age=23

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