Structured form rows are great for everyday multipart and urlencoded requests—until you need the exact bytes on the wire. HarborClient’s Raw body drawer lets you edit and send that wire text directly.

How to open it

In the request editor, set Body type to Multipart Form or Form URL Encoded. Below the structured table, expand the Raw body drawer.

How to edit it

The drawer opens with a plain-text projection of your form rows. Edit that text to take over what HarborClient sends. Your edits become the authoritative body for the request.

When you want to go back to the structured rows, use Reset from rows to discard the raw override and restore the projection.

Why use the raw body editor?

Use it when you need to send intentionally invalid or unusual bodies—broken multipart boundaries, odd encoding, trailing & characters, and other edge cases that the row editor won’t produce. That’s ideal for testing how your server validates bad input.

If the raw text can’t map cleanly back to the table, HarborClient keeps the raw body authoritative and notes that the structured rows may not match what will be sent.

Copy to chat

Select text in the Raw body editor and choose Copy to chat (or press Ctrl+Shift+O). HarborClient inserts a @body reference into the AI sidebar so you can discuss or update that selection with AI assistance.

Try it

Open a multipart or urlencoded request, expand Raw body, tweak the wire text, and send—then use Copy to chat when you want AI help with the same selection.