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HTTP messages are not ASCII encoded (#32434)
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* HTTP messages are not ASCII encoded

* Remove altogether

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Co-authored-by: Brian Thomas Smith <[email protected]>
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hamishwillee and bsmth authored Feb 26, 2024
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HTTP messages are how data is exchanged between a server and a client. There are two types of messages: _requests_ sent by the client to trigger an action on the server, and _responses_, the answer from the server.

HTTP messages are composed of textual information encoded in ASCII, and span over multiple lines. In HTTP/1.1, and earlier versions of the protocol, these messages were openly sent across the connection. In HTTP/2, the once human-readable message is now divided up into HTTP frames, providing optimization and performance improvements.

Web developers, or webmasters, rarely craft these textual HTTP messages themselves: software, a Web browser, proxy, or Web server, perform this action. They provide HTTP messages through config files (for proxies or servers), APIs (for browsers), or other interfaces.

![From a user-, script-, or server- generated event, an HTTP/1.x msg is generated, and if HTTP/2 is in use, it is binary framed into an HTTP/2 stream, then sent.](httpmsg2.png)
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