Content-Length

The Content-Length entity header is indicating the size of the entity-body, in decimal number of octets, sent to the recipient.

Header type	Entity header
Forbidden header name	yes

Syntax

Content-Length: <length>

Directives

<length>

The length in decimal number of octets.

Specifications

Specification	Title
RFC 7230, section 3.3.2: Content-Length	Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and Routing

Browser compatibility

See also

• Transfer-Encoding