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HTTP Content-length question...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Srivatsa Srinivasan)
Sun May 7 16:17:23 1995
Date: Sun, 7 May 1995 15:58:18 +0500
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Reply-To: srinivas@cs.iastate.edu
From: Srivatsa Srinivasan <srinivas@cs.iastate.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list <www-talk@www10.w3.org>
Hello WWWorld,
I have a HTTP protocol question.
I have a simple HTTP client that requests an object from a HTTP server using
the GET method. Now, the client is written such that it mandatorily needs the
server to return the 'Content-length:' header in its response.
The problem I am facing is, this header is returned for most kind of objects
(image/gif, audio/au etc) but not for text/html. Is there any special form
of the GET request that will force the server to return the size of the object
(the 'Content-length:' header) irrespective of its MIME type ?
Thanks for your help!
Srivatsa Srinivasan
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