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Re: HTTP for Dummies??
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (hooi_leng.t.szakal@bellatlantic.co)
Fri Feb 13 14:24:29 1998
From: hooi_leng.t.szakal@bellatlantic.com
To: "www-talk-request(a)w3.org" <www-talk-request@w3.org>,
"www-talk(a)w3.org" <www-talk@w3.org>
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 13:54:20 -0500
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"Web Client Programming" by Clinton Wong, O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
is a great reference.
Hooi-Leng Szakal
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Subject: HTTP for Dummies??
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Date: 2/12/98 6:26 PM
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Comment: HTTP for Dummies??
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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
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