What Is Data Header?

When we say header, we are not talking about the goal you score in a football game with your head. No, no, it's much different from that. You're probably familiar with the term "header" It's a word that describes any preliminary information about a file. We'll take you one step further: we're talking about data headers today. Data headers are a broad term for preliminary information that helps prepare an end device for further, more specific information. It's kind of like when you're in the middle of watching a movie, and someone comes over and asks you to help them with their homework; sometimes, it's just easier to give them the response they need so they can get back to what they were doing than it is to tell them how to find the answer on their own. Headers. You have to love them, you know. You must be a newbie to this field if you need to know what I'm talking about. If you do well, it's one of those things that make your brain hurt. You see, depending on what field of the IT industry one may be working in, There are many things that a header can refer to. When referring to headers in a networking context, a header could refer to the initial set of bits transmitted by an end device that describes what the receiving end device can expect to receive throughout the data stream. That's all well and good. It just needs clarification when you're trying to understand what's going on with your network connection. All these different protocols are flying around and are supposed to be doing something specific but aren't doing anything because they're just sitting there with their little headers looking pretty…