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  1. Yesterday was the first time in years a remote #REST #API server required me to send the #ContentLength #requestHeader. The #HTTP component I was using, #HttpURLConnection by Sun, outright refused to set it.

    I looked up the HTTP RFC: yes, it is called Content-Length, and yes, it's a count of 16-bit characters. And it can be used only if neither streaming nor chunking the contents. My code met those requirements.

    What was going on?