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

Posted by Thomas Katalenas
Thomas Katalenas
11,033 Points

help? http

what goes in content-length on second to last line..

In the HTTP request below, provide the missing value.

POST /register HTTP/1.1
Host: example.com
Accept-Language: en-US
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length:

name=Sara&email=sara@tmail.com

3 Answers

Russell Roberts
Russell Roberts
21,481 Points
Russell Roberts
Russell Roberts
21,481 Points

You would count all the characters in the body that are being displayed. 30

jcorum
jcorum
71,801 Points
jcorum
jcorum
71,801 Points

The length of (number of characters in) the body:

name=Sara&email=sara@tmail.com