Getting Size of Http request and response - android

I am study about doPost and get method to send data from android app to tomcat server.
I am trying to check the size of http request and response because I am sure that request and response was sending data and catching data from tomcat server.
I used this example ,
http://www.avajava.com/tutorials/lessons/how-do-i-determine-the-content-length-of-a-request.html
to check the contents length.
After I get contents length, i get two questions
First, contents-length represents whole size of http request ?
if it is not, then how can i check the size of http request (by bytes)?
second , I am still having a trouble to getting size of response ?
I tried
How to Get the HTTP Response Size in Java (in Bytes)
Determine size of HTTP Response?
but i was getting error to get size of http response
is there any way to get size of http response ?
thanks

No, it is not the size of the whole request. It is the length of the message body, excluding status line and headers.
Not all servers provide the content length. If you use chunked transfer encoding, the content length cannot be determined without downloading the whole response. If the server sends the "Content-Length" header, you can get the size of the message body. You need to hook the socket stream to get the actual (full) response size.

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