About
A payload header is an HTTP header that describes the payload information related to safe transport and reconstruction of the original resource representation, from one or more messages1.
Example
An example includes information like the length of the message payload, which part of the resource is carried in this payload (for a multi-part message), any encoding applied for transport, message integrity checks, etc.
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References
MDN. “Payload headers”. Available at: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Payload_header. (Accessed: ). ↩︎