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Entity-header field indicates the size of the entity-body.

The Content-Length entity-header field indicates the size of the entity-body, in decimal number of OCTETs, sent to the recipient or, in the case of the HEAD method, the size of the entity-body that would have been sent had the request been a GET.

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How can I send an incorrect Content-Length header for an HTTP request using Perl?

I'm trying to debug a weird warning that is showing up in server logs when a Plack::Request is being parsed. In some cases, a broken UserAgent will send a Content-Length header that looks something like "6375, 6375", which is obviously wrong. To…
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how to add appropriate content-length header with okhttp?

I'm using okhttp to send requests to my server. The problem is that the requests okhttp sends are missing the content-length header - I can set the header manually with: Request.builder .... .addHeader("content-length","some-value") but I can't get…
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How to determine the Content-Length of a gzipped file in Python?

I've a big compressed file and I want to know the size of the content without uncompress it. I've tried this: import gzip import os with gzip.open(data_file) as f: f.seek(0, os.SEEK_END) size = f.tell() but I get this…
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Http/Smtp MIME multipart. Why boundary?

I have a question regarding the design of these protocols. Why do we use boundary to separate parts of the multipart message instead of introducing a content-length for each part? Using length the parsing would easier. Do I miss some principal…
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HttpPost + setEntity : how to know content-length?

I've set almost all my data : String capcha = editText.getText().toString(); HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient(); HttpPost httppost = new HttpPost("myurl.asp"); // Add your data String str =…
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Content-length header not being set correctly

I have a php script (actually https://drupal.org/project/file_force) that is forcing users who click on a link to download that link by adding the correct headers to the response. This link works fine 90% of the time. Occasionally the incorrect…
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how to create a unique sequence of letter and numbers in constructor

I have a field call details which holds different sequence of letter and numbers, what i am trying to do is a Constructor that have a unique sequence of letter and numbers of length 8.
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why does golang http ResponseWriter auto add content-length if it's no more than 2kb

func (handler Handler) ServeHTTP(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) { var content string ... w.Write([]byte(content)) } if len(content) <= 2048, the content-length will be added automatically in the response. And if it's over 2048,…
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Content-Length header is not getting set for PATCH requests with empty/nil payload - GoLang

I observed that Content-Length header is not getting set for PATCH requests with empty/nil payload. Even if we manually set it by req.Header.Set("content-length", "0") it is not actually getting set in the out going request. This strange behaviour…
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Firefox blocking access to Content-Length Response Header

I have a simple fetch call to an audio file on S3, and am using the Content-Length header to generate a loading progress bar. On Chrome and Safari, this is totally functional, but Firefox is returning null for…
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File.length() returns 0

I'm trying to get the length (in bytes) of some files. The problem is that I get a zero for their length while they are not of length zero (I checked!) Moreover, every other file's method I'm using on these files works just fine. so it's just the…
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File size will not display on PHP download script during file download

I am using a PHP script to download a file when you go to a page, but I can't set it up so that when a person downloads the file, it will show the file size (mine shows "unknown time remaining"). I've looked around on Google and can't find out how…
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Servlet ignores Content-Length and uses Transfer-Encoding: chunked based on User-Agent

I want to compress response body in javax.servlet.Filter. Here is my code byte[] bytes = // compressing response body response.addHeader("Content-Encoding", "gzip"); response.addHeader("Content-Length",…
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How to determine content-data length from chunked encoding if HTTP header not sent

How to determine the content-data length if the header is not sent and instead you receive Transfer-Encoding: chunked header?
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How to compute content length of multipart file request with formdata in go

Currently trying to create a multipart upload request to upload a png along with some extra body params. The server is returning the response: The request body did not contain the specified number of bytes. Got 142,827, expected 146,836 So…
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