Set content-length in PostMethod of Jakarta HttpClient

Hi Folks,
I'm trying to send a HttpRequest via Jakarta's HttpClient. Everything works fine, but I could not yet figure out, how to get the content-length of my RequestBody before I set the Name-Value-Pairs via postRequest.setRequestBody(NameValuePair[] data) or after I set the Parameters via the addParameter(String paramName, String paramValue) Method.
The getRequestContentLength() Method in class org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.EntityEnclosingMethod is protected, so I can't use it out of the PostMethod class.
Any suppestions ?
Thx for help...

The problem is solved. Instead of doing:
pw.println(postContent);
, I do:
pw.print(postContent);
...and it works. The extra newline-chars confused the webserver.
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