diff --git a/src/htmx.js b/src/htmx.js
index d07dd8d9..bcfe3cc1 100644
--- a/src/htmx.js
+++ b/src/htmx.js
@@ -1637,12 +1637,8 @@ return (function () {
             addExpressionVars(elt, rawParameters);
             var filteredParameters = filterValues(rawParameters, elt);
 
-            if (verb !== 'get') {
-                var encoding = getClosestAttributeValue(elt, "hx-encoding");
-                if (encoding == null) {
-                    encoding = 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8';
-                }
-                headers['Content-Type'] = encoding;
+            if (verb !== 'get' && getClosestAttributeValue(elt, "hx-encoding") == null) {
+                headers['Content-Type'] = 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8';
             }
 
             // behavior of anchors w/ empty href is to use the current URL
diff --git a/test/core/ajax.js b/test/core/ajax.js
index 87e20b43..69404d7f 100644
--- a/test/core/ajax.js
+++ b/test/core/ajax.js
@@ -630,8 +630,7 @@ describe("Core htmx AJAX Tests", function(){
    it('multipart/form-data encoding works', function()
     {
         this.server.respondWith("POST", "/test", function(xhr){
-            console.log(xhr);
-            xhr.requestHeaders['Content-Type'].startsWith("multipart/form-data");
+            should.equal(xhr.requestHeaders['Content-Type'], undefined);
             xhr.requestBody.get("i1").should.equal('foo');
             xhr.respond(200, {}, "body: " + xhr.requestBody);
         });