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The <quote>payload</> string to be communicated along with the
- notification. This string must be shorter than 8000 bytes, and
- is treated as text.
+ notification. This must be specified as a simple string literal.
+ In the default configuration it must be shorter than 8000 bytes.
(If binary data or large amounts of information need to be communicated,
it's best to put it in a database table and send the key of the record.)
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