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Clarify how to model streaming binary data
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Explain how maxLength applies to raw binary
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Include streaming string data, other wording improvements.
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Expand Up @@ -171,6 +171,8 @@ Two formats, `binary` and `byte`, describe different ways to work with binary da
* `binary` is used where unencoded binary data is allowed, such as when sending a binary payload as an HTTP message body, or as part of a `multipart/*` payload that allows binary parts
* `byte` is used where binary data is embedded in a text-only format such as `application/json` or `application/x-www-form-urlencoded`

The `maxLength` keyword can be used to set an upper bound on the length of a binary payload; otherwise, a binary payload SHOULD be interpreted as a stream of indeterminate length.

Note that the encoding indicated by `byte`, which inflates the size of data in order to represent it as 7-bit ASCII text, is unrelated to HTTP's `Content-Encoding` header, which indicates whether and how a message body has been compressed.

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