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Some of protocol header implementation examples use 8 bytes for length

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      Some of code examples here serialize data length as 8 bytes, e.g.

      $packet = "ZBXD\1" . pack('P', strlen($data)) . $data;
      

      according to the old protocol specification:

      <DATALEN> - data length (8 bytes). 1 will be formatted as 01/00/00/00/00/00/00/00 (eight bytes, 64 bit number in little-endian format)
      

      Nowadays data length is supposed to be 4 bytes and another 4 bytes are "reserved":

      <DATALEN> - data length (4 bytes). 1 will be formatted as 01/00/00/00 (four bytes, 32 bit number in little-endian format).
      <RESERVED> - reserved for protocol extensions (4 bytes).
      

      P.S. It also says that

      When compression is enabled (0x02 flag) the <RESERVED> bytes contains uncompressed data size, 32 bit number in little-endian format.

      ...but does not say what <RESERVED> bytes should be when compression is not enabled.

      P.P.S. Use of <code> seems inappropriate to list parts of protocol header and looks a bit ugly. A list or a table would look better.

        1. appendixes-protocols-header.md
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            martins-v Martins Valkovskis
            cyclone Glebs Ivanovskis
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