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HTTP for Dummies??
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris)
Thu Feb 12 18:28:01 1998
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 17:58:11 -0500
From: Chris <chris@surewould.com>
Reply-To: chris@surewould.com
To: www-talk@w3.org
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I've been looking over RFC 1945 to try and learn a detail or two about
HTTP, and it occues to me that I'm not very bright. Specifically, I'm
trying to find out how the value to specify in the Content-Length line
when POSTing data to a form (I'm trying to do a POST in Java using a
Socket, not a URLConnection). The meatiest thing I've found is from
section 10.4:
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.
That just doesn't do it for me.
Is there an HTTP reference anywhere that's a little simpler?
Thanks,
Chris
