How to calculate Content-Length in JavaScript

ajax, javascript, jquery

Solution

As said in specs

The Content-Length entity-header field indicates the size of the entity-body, in decimal number of OCTETs

Please look as this question String length in bytes in JavaScript.

Basically if your data contains only ASCII characters everything should be quite easy

function LikesDislikes () {

    var data = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    <entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
           xmlns:yt="http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007">
        <yt:rating value="like"/>
    </entry>';

    $.ajax({
        url: 'http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/keDZXXDxK1c/ratings',
        type:"POST",
        data: data,
        headers: {
            "Content-Type":"application/atom+xml",
            "Content-Length": data.length,
            "Authorization":"Bearer ya29.AHES6ZQ59RrQgujZmIjssBdYlwwLVrpCodnirdLROi7-g7U",
            "X-GData-Key":"key=AIzaSyAPrtP2Tq4m5WVInCvCWptVAKPhQ4SQNZA",
            "GData-Version":"2"
        },
        // Content-Type:"application/atom+xml",
        error: function() { alert("No data found."); },
        // contentType: "text/xml",
        success: function (response) {
            alert('response:' + response);
        }
    });
}

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