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Development Tools HTTP Basics Introduction to HTTP Sending Data with a POST Request

Posted by Thomas Katalenas
Thomas Katalenas
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how do you know how many bytes?

how would you know that in a real life scenario?

1 Answer

jcorum
jcorum
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jcorum
jcorum
71,830 Points
  1. It's the number of bytes of data in the body of the response. The body is the part that comes after the blank line below the headers. It lets the receiving party knows when the current response has finished. In the real world you wouldn't be calculating it. It's calculated by the server.