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Co-authored-by: Hamish Willee <hamishwillee@gmail.com>
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A **representation header** (or 'representation metadata') is an {{glossary("HTTP_header", "HTTP header")}} that describes a particular _representation_ of a resource.
When a message includes content, the representation header fields describe how to interpret the data.
A **representation header** (or 'representation metadata') is an {{glossary("HTTP_header", "HTTP header")}} that describes how to interpret the data contained in the message.

For example, data might be formatted as a particular media type such as XML, JSON, HTML or Markdown, or localized to a particular written language or geographical region.
The underlying resource is semantically the same in each case, but its representation is different.
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