About
In computing, and telecomunications, the payload is the part of transmitted data that is the actual intended message; they are sent together with headers only to enable payload delivery and are considered overhead1. In HTTP messages, payload body or payload was the resource representation transferred in a message body, stripped of any transfer encoding; with no transfer encoding, the payload body and message body are identical2.
Usage
The are commonly used in computer programming in the context of message protocols, to differentiate the protocol overhead from actual data e.g., a JSON web serve response might be :
In computer security (cyber security), the payload is the part of the private user text which could also contain malware such as worms or viruses which performs the malicious action; deleting data, sending spam or encrypting data.
{ "data": { "message": "Hello, world!" } }
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References
Wikipedia. “payload”. Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payload_(computing). (Accessed: ). ↩︎
MDN. “Payload body”. Available at: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Payload_body. (Accessed ). ↩︎