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

Julie Pham
Julie Pham
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Posted by Julie Pham
Julie Pham
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How can I count the number bytes of data that I will pass in the POST request?

Is there any tool beside telnet that doesn't require to count the number of bytes to pass in the POST request?

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nico dev
nico dev
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nico dev
nico dev
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Wow, fantastic resource. Thank you!

Sean T. Unwin
Sean T. Unwin
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Sean T. Unwin
Sean T. Unwin
28,690 Points

As mentioned in the Teacher's Notes, if the data is utf-8 and part of the Basic Latin Characters we can assume 1 character equals 1 byte.

tl;dr: the total number of characters is equal to the total number of bytes.

byteknacker
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byteknacker
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byteknacker
byteknacker
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Is there a command line tool that I can run to get the exact byte size of the payload I am about to send as a POST request?