Calculating SOAP Content-Length

Question

How do you calculate the Content-Length is a soap message? Is it the number of chars in the whole soap message?

Answer 1

Yes. Convert your XML message to a string and use the length of the string as Content-Length.

(Assuming you are using eight-byte characters.)

Answer 2

Its the number of bytes, not the number of characters, so it will depend on the text encoding used.