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 ## Encoding
 
 When Cucumber Messages are stored in a file or sent over a network, they are
-encoded as [NDJSON](http://ndjson.org/). We call this a *message stream*.
+encoded as NDJSON. We call this a *message stream*.
 
 Each message in a message stream is of type [Envelope](messages.md#envelope).