headerbody
In information technology, headerbody, often written as a single term, refers to the conceptual pairing of a header and a body within a data unit used for communication or storage. The header carries metadata, while the body contains the main payload. The term is descriptive rather than a formal standard.
The header typically includes fields such as message type, version, identifiers, content-length, content-type, routing information, timestamps,
Headerbody is central to many data formats and network protocols. In email and HTTP, a header section
Advantages of the headerbody approach include clearer parsing, the ability to route or validate a message based
Common implementation patterns involve explicit length fields, delimiter markers, or length-prefixed frames, as well as serialization