Protocol Design

Message Framing

The method of delimiting individual messages within a stream of bytes, using techniques like length-prefixed frames (gRPC), delimiters (SMTP CRLF.CRLF), or chunk encoding.

Related Protocols

HTTP SMTP gRPC WebSocket

Mentioned in Guides

WebSocket vs Server-Sent Events: Choosing the Right Protocol Real-Time Protocols

Related Scenarios

1009 Message Too Big — Payload Size Limit WebSocket

Defined In

RFC 9112 HTTP/1.1

RFC 5322 Internet Message Format

gRPC Core Protocol Buffers (protobuf)

See Also

Chunked Transfer Encoding HTTP Concepts

Protocol Buffers (Protobuf) Protocol Design

Wire Format Protocol Design

SMTP Pipelining Email & SMTP

WebSocket Frame Real-Time & Streaming