It seems that $fetch does not work with FormData on internal URLs. Here is an example on Stackblitz.
If you uncomment lines 12 to 15 and refresh the browser, you can clearly see the error. It seems that ofetch does not correctly serialize the data, and the application/x-www-form-urlencoded header is also not set properly. A workaround or potential fix is already included in the Stackblitz example.
Since the behavior of internal URLs is related to a Nitro feature and, as far as I know, is not yet part of ofetch, I am creating this bug report here because it likely needs to be fixed directly in Nitro.
Additional context
Potential fix:
// Works for both internal and external urls
const resFix = await $fetch('/test', {
method: 'POST',
body: formData,
onRequest({ options, request }) {
if (options.body instanceof FormData && request.startsWith('/')) {
const params = new URLSearchParams();
for (const [key, value] of options.body.entries()) {
params.append(key, value);
}
options.headers = options.headers || new Headers();
// Header is also missing when calling internal url!!!
options.headers.set('Content-Type', 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded');
options.body = params.toString();
}
},
});
Logs
[nitro] [request error] [unhandled] Request.formData: Could not parse content as FormData.
at o.errors.exception (https://unjsnitrostarterxipb6m-dyvd.w-credentialless-staticblitz.com/builtins.ddb8d84d.js:93:35885)
at _Request.formData (https://unjsnitrostarterxipb6m-dyvd.w-credentialless-staticblitz.com/builtins.ddb8d84d.js:93:90813)
at async Module.readFormData (./node_modules/h3/dist/index.mjs:600:10)
at async Object.eval [as handler] (./.nitro/dev/index.mjs:970:20)
at async Object.eval [as handler] (./node_modules/h3/dist/index.mjs:2103:19)
at async toNodeHandle (./node_modules/h3/dist/index.mjs:2395:7)
at async ufetch (./node_modules/unenv/runtime/fetch/index.mjs:28:17)
at async $fetchRaw2 (./node_modules/ofetch/dist/shared/ofetch.03887fc3.mjs:275:26)
at async $fetch2 (./node_modules/ofetch/dist/shared/ofetch.03887fc3.mjs:333:15)
at async Object.eval [as handler] (./.nitro/dev/index.mjs:928:3)
[nitro] [request error] [unhandled] [POST] "/test": 500
at async $fetch2 (./node_modules/ofetch/dist/shared/ofetch.03887fc3.mjs:333:15)
at async Object.eval (./.nitro/dev/index.mjs:928:3)
Environment
nitropack@latest node 16-22
Reproduction
https://stackblitz.com/edit/unjs-nitro-starter-xipb6m?file=server%2Froutes%2Findex.ts
Describe the bug
It seems that
$fetch
does not work withFormData
on internal URLs. Here is an example on Stackblitz.If you uncomment lines 12 to 15 and refresh the browser, you can clearly see the error. It seems that
ofetch
does not correctly serialize the data, and theapplication/x-www-form-urlencoded
header is also not set properly. A workaround or potential fix is already included in the Stackblitz example.Since the behavior of internal URLs is related to a
Nitro
feature and, as far as I know, is not yet part ofofetch
, I am creating this bug report here because it likely needs to be fixed directly inNitro
.Additional context
Potential fix:
Logs