Questions tagged [http-content-length]

The Content-Length header specifies the length (in bytes) of the content, both for requests and responses.

The Content-Length header specifies the length (in bytes) of the content, both for requests and responses. It is especially important when using persistent connections, so the end of one message and the start of the next can be delineated. It is not used for chunked content.

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how to send Image to server with content length and image data as body?

I am developing one android application and in my application i want to send image data to my server. So I am using put request. I dont want to send image data with json object. I just want to send image data as body of HTTP put request. And also…
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Setting content length of an HTTP POST request

I am trying to make a Http POST request using apache HTTP client. I am trying to copy contents of an HTTP POST request (received at my application) to another HTTP POST request (initiated from my application to another URL). Code is shown…
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Get content-length from a URL which redirects to itself

I want to get content-length from a URL that it sends me this header: HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently Date: Sun, 01 Jan 2012 09:34:44 GMT Server: Apache Location: https://www.sugarsync.com, www.sugarsync.com/pf/D6304231_0192919_76577 Keep-Alive:…
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HTTP header for decompressed length

When using Content-Encoding: gzip, Content-Length is the compressed, post-gzip-encoding size. I want to add a header for the uncompressed, pre-gzip-encoding size. An embedded application will read this and preallocate a correctly sized buffer for…
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How should HTTP/1.1 servers handle requests containing Content-Length headers with empty values?

RFC 9110 defines the Content-Length ABNF rule like this: Content-Length = 1*DIGIT (i.e. 1 or more ASCII digits) The same also says this: a sender MUST NOT forward a message with a Content-Length header field value that does not match the ABNF…
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Premature end of Content-Length delimited message body (expected: 42 320; received: 7 787)

I am trying to get HTTP response with the help of apache httpclient. I get headers successfully but it throws exception when I try to get contents. Exception is: Caused by: org.apache.http.ConnectionClosedException: Premature end of Content-Length…
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how does Chrome DevTools knows content size of an incomplete http response

I got an har file exported by Chrome DevTools. It shows an incomplete http response with error net::ERR_INCOMPLETE_CHUNKED_ENCODING. the incomplete http response has been transfered 4096 bytes. "content": { "size": 67469, …
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Override Content-Length header with a custom value

I have a controller returning an image, but the image was cut off at the bottom in the front-end (in the browser), after some digging I found out it's because the Content-Length response header was smaller then the actual file size (by some 500…
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How to stop Spring MVC from automatically adding the "Content-Length: 0" header to HEAD responses?

I'm specifically trying to test the case where my application doesn't receive a Content-Length header from the server, so I've set up my code not to include that header, but for some reason Spring is including it anyway with a value of…
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How to configure `Content-Length' header in HTTP protocol

I don't clear about how to count `Content-Length' header in HTTP. Take an example, HEADER ... Content-Type: text/html (blank line `\r\n') (blank line `\r\n') This is a working http request sending an empty HTML page(correct me if any…
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Premature end of Content-Length delimited message body - Resttemplate

I am downloading a large file from a third party URL using Spring RestTemplate . Im using the below method to download the file so as not to load the entirety into memory. // Optional Accept header RequestCallback requestCallback = request ->…
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How IDM knows google drive file sizes?

I am working on a download manager in C# integrated Chrome. When I try to download from google drive the response doesn't return a Content-Length and this means -1 (Unknown). But IDM gets the correct size and I couldn't understand how. Anyone knows…
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How to get missing content length for a file from url?

I am trying to write a simple download manager using python with concurrency. The aim is to use the Content-Length header from the response of a file url and splits the file into chunks then download those chunks concurrently. The idea works for all…
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Files served with Aqueduct don't have a Content-Length header

I am writing a backend for my Flutter app using Aqueduct. I have Aqueduct set up so that Nginx proxies requests to it like this: server { root /home/web/my_server/web; index index.html index.htm; server_name example.com…
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How Web Browser recognize the HTTP Request Content-length

When I upload a file,How a browser get the size of file ,and cal the sum size (Content-length),and make sure it is accurate. Nginx can limit file size ,for example 1M, and what exactly include in 1M,HTTP all byte? all info in one form ? Or max file…
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