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Appendix C. Imported ABNF

The following core rules are included by reference, as defined in Appendix B.1 of [RFC5234]:

  • ALPHA (letters)
  • CR (carriage return)
  • CRLF (CR LF)
  • CTL (controls)
  • DIGIT (decimal 0-9)
  • DQUOTE (double quote)
  • HEXDIG (hexadecimal 0-9/A-F/a-f)
  • HTAB (horizontal tab)
  • LF (line feed)
  • OCTET (any 8-bit sequence of data)
  • SP (space)
  • VCHAR (any visible US-ASCII character)

The following rules are defined in [RFC7230]:

BWS           = <BWS, see [RFC7230], Section 3.2.3>
OWS = <OWS, see [RFC7230], Section 3.2.3>
RWS = <RWS, see [RFC7230], Section 3.2.3>
URI-reference = <URI-reference, see [RFC7230], Section 2.7>
absolute-URI = <absolute-URI, see [RFC7230], Section 2.7>
comment = <comment, see [RFC7230], Section 3.2.6>
field-name = <field-name, see [RFC7230], Section 3.2>
partial-URI = <partial-URI, see [RFC7230], Section 2.7>
quoted-string = <quoted-string, see [RFC7230], Section 3.2.6>
token = <token, see [RFC7230], Section 3.2.6>

The following rules are defined in other parts of this specification:

HTTP-date     = <HTTP-date, see Section 7.1.1.1>
content-coding = <content-coding, see Section 3.1.2.1>
language-range = <language-range, see Section 5.3.1>
language-tag = <language-tag, see Section 3.1.3.1>
media-type = <media-type, see Section 3.1.1.1>
method = <method, see [RFC7230], Section 3.1.1>
product = <product, see Section 5.5.3>
qvalue = <qvalue, see Section 5.3.1>