http-content-length Questions

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I am trying to use this code to download a .zip file <?php $file = "something.zip"; $size = filesize($file); header('Content-type: application/octet-stream'); header("Content-length: $size"...
Benefit asked 11/1, 2014 at 16:48

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I've read conflicting and somewhat ambiguous replies to the question "How is a multipart HTTP request content length calculated?". Specifically I wonder: What is the precise content range for whi...

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The client is making a range request 0-1023 to the http server. It prefers gzip compression with Accept-Encoding: gzip;q=1.0, identity; q=0.5, *;q=0 in the request. What would be the content-len...
Rahman asked 29/9, 2010 at 6:35

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The common examples for okhttp cover the scenarios of get and post. But I need to get the file size of a file with a url. Since I need to inform the the user, and only after getting their approval...
Assumpsit asked 11/2, 2016 at 6:9

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I'm loading a particularly large JSON string that is dynamically generated by PHP. To provide some feedback to the user, I want to show download progress. I have the code figured out, and it works...
Evaluate asked 22/1, 2013 at 17:28

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I have a piece of Java code to transfer a byte array to HTTP server: HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection(); connection.setDoInput(true); connection.setDoOutput(tr...
Sampling asked 19/5, 2011 at 8:58

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This is a CURL example which works fine: curl -X POST \ <url> \ -H 'authorization: Bearer <token>' \ -H 'content-type: multipart/form-data; boundary=----WebKitFormBoundary7MA4YWxkTr...

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I understand that in HTTP 1.0, the content of a response is terminated by closing the connection. In HTTP 1.1, keep-alive connections were introduced, enabling multiple requests and responses in a ...
Banff asked 13/3, 2018 at 12:21

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I use this code to download a file to memory from ftp: public static function getFtpFileContents($conn_id , $file) { ob_start(); $result = ftp_get($conn_id, "php://output", $file, FTP_BINARY); ...
Zeidman asked 11/11, 2017 at 17:12

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Using Varnish 4, I have a set of backends that're responding with a valid Content-Length header and no Transfer-Encoding header. On the first hit from a client, rather than responding to the clien...
Confide asked 13/5, 2014 at 23:25

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I tried to mke a request with GET and parameters. However, I got an exception for the WinPhone8.1 which meaned that GET was a violation protocol due to a content added in. So making a POST request ...

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Does the HTTP response header Content-Length pertain to the length before or after decoding the body due to Content-Encoding: gzip?

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I have an http client in Android sending HTTP PUT requests to a REST api implemented with C# and ASP.NET WebApi framework. The framework should be able to magically convert (deserialize) the JSON ...
Resentment asked 30/9, 2014 at 2:32

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When sending a HTTP Response, should I conclude the response body (the content itself) with a newline (line separator)? And if so, should I include the size of the line separator (I guess increase...
Reckoner asked 11/12, 2012 at 13:16

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I'm in a tough situation in which a Java web service endpoint hosted on an IBM HTTP Server (IHS) requires a Content-Length header, although it supposedly conforms to HTTP/1.1. If I send the header,...
Marla asked 2/9, 2009 at 0:18

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Before starting a Range request, I first check if it is supported using a HEAD request. Normally I get back something like this: curl -X HEAD -i http://bits.wikimedia.org/images/wikimedia-button.pn...
Gargoyle asked 22/11, 2014 at 22:15

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I'm using the python requests module to do some testing against a site. The requests module allows you to remove certain headers by passing in a dictionary with the keys set to None. For example he...
Ingeminate asked 20/11, 2014 at 15:33

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If my HTTP server gets an HTTP/1.0 request with the "Connection: keep-alive" header, is it a fair bet that the client will understand "Transfer-Encoding: chunked"? Essentially, I'm trying to decid...

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updated question How can my application leverage etags, and does introducing streaming/chunked encoding introduce any complications? original question When doing HTTP streaming with Transfer-E...
Teetotaler asked 14/11, 2013 at 7:50

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I'm currently trying to optimize http-based data transfer between several applications. Our current approach, downloading first and then creating the post-request, obviously add extra IO/memory loa...
Talkative asked 7/2, 2013 at 18:52

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i'm using code like this: //section with the important stuff for the client ob_start(); echo "Blah... Random Content" . rand(1,1000); $size = ob_get_length(); header("Content-Length: $size"); he...

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Is a HTTP Content-Length over 2GB or 4GB supported by modern webservers? How about the chunks in HTTP Chunked Transfer Encoding? Can an individual HTTP chunk exceed 2GB in length? I need to know ...
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