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text-based vs binary. So most of the characters used in the IP are between 0x20 (space) and 0x7E (~), opposed to transmitting binary over the connection.

• pki 11y ago
  what do you mean IP?
• Perdition 11y ago
  Only HTTP is text based. TCP, IP, and link-layer protocols are binary. HTTP is text based because it is a protocol for transferring (hyper)text and so was intended to be human readable like hypertext is.