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Also known as: dot stuffing, byte stuffing
The transport convention that keeps article bodies from being cut short. Since a line holding a single period signals the end of an article, any body line that begins with a period gets a second one added by the sender and removed by the receiver. The doubling is invisible when both ends implement it; a client that fails to undo it silently corrupts encoded binary data.
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