• A variant of JSON, introduced and used by the Puppet software configuration tool, that serializes data. Contrary to JSON, which requires the serialized form to be valid Unicode (typically UTF-8), PSON uses 8-bit ASCII, allowing it to represent arbitrary byte sequences in strings. To identify PSON, Puppet relies on the MIME types pson and text/pson.

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