What is a Payload? [closed]

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Im in webpage and they say: "Download the payload" They say i can use this to download the payload:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/live-http-headers/

But what exactly is the payload ?

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The payload of a webpage is the HTML (sometimes also incuding images/JS/CSS etc.), i.e. the "interesting" stuff. The HTTP head is the overhead which describes the payload (e.g. size, last date modified), the HTML is the payload.