Name

Content-Length

Synopsis

The Content-Length header gives the length or size of the entity body. If the header is in a response message to a HEAD HTTP request, the value of the header indicates the size that the entity body would have been had it been sent.

Type

Entity header

Basic Syntax

Content-Length: 1*DIGIT

Example

Content-Length: 2417

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