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Development Tools HTTP Basics Introduction to HTTP Sending Data with a POST Request

Posted by Ryan Greenberg
Ryan Greenberg
3,152 Points

content length http request

I know I need to determine content length by counting characters, I do not know however which characters to count.

Ryan Greenberg
Ryan Greenberg
3,152 Points

Nvm, figured it out!

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,268 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,268 Points

The Content-Length is the number of characters in the body of the message.

In particular, any keywords and values in the header are not counted, just the characters in the main portion of the message after the header.