
The process of sending and receiving data between layers
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Computer Science/Network
Keywords: encapsulation, decapsulation When a computer sends a request to another computer (e.g., requesting a web page via HTTP), the data flows through the network stack by undergoing encapsulation and decapsulation processes across the TCP/IP layers.EncapsulationEncapsulation is the process in which each lower layer wraps the data from the upper layer with its own header (and sometimes trai..