Re: cURL Content-Length problem

On Thu, 28 May 2020, Arthur Azevedo via curl-users wrote:

> But I having problem with the response body when the text contains accents
> (or should I say diacritical marks? what´s the correct?). I believe the
> Content-Length is counting letters, not bytes. I´m receiving the response -
> a json, without the close curly brace at the final.

HTTP and Content-Length are for bytes and there's not even any concept of
"letters" in the protocol.

> I already tried --ignore-content-length, but with HTTP the cURL keeps
> waiting for and end connection that never came and exit with timeout error.

In HTTP, Content-Length tells the receiver how much data there is in the
message and in many cases that's the only way a client knows when it has
reached the end of the data. So if you remove or skip that header, curl won't
know when the data ends - until the connection is closed. (And if we end the
data with a close, we can't even detect premature connection breakages.)

> < HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
> < Content-Length: 55
> < Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
> < Server: Microsoft-IIS/8.0
> < X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
> < Date: Thu, 28 May 2020 14:12:55 GMT
> <
> * Excess found in a non pipelined read: excess = 1, size = 55, maxdownload
> = 55, bytecount = 0
> {"NomeArquivo":["O nome do arquivo não foi informado"]* Connection #0 to
> host 223.223.2.236 left intact

This looks like the serfer says it will send 55 bytes, and curl reads those 55
bytes finding that there actually is *more* data to read (one byte more
actually), which tells us that the server messed up big-time here. I would
presume then that possibly that final brace you're looking for is that final
byte.

The server told us the content is 55 bytes, then sent 56 bytes.

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Received on 2020-05-28