- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:09:25 +0100
- To: Adam Barth <w3c@adambarth.com>
- CC: =JeffH <Jeff.Hodges@kingsmountain.com>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Adam Barth wrote: > On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 4:15 PM, =JeffH <Jeff.Hodges@kingsmountain.com> wrote: >> draft-abarth-origin-05 features this ABNF.. >> >> origin = "origin" ":" OWS [ "null" / origin-list ] OWS >> origin-list = serialized-origin *( 1*SP serialized-origin ) >> serialized-origin = scheme "://" host [ ":" port ] >> ; <scheme>, <host>, <port> productions from RFC3986 >> >> ..with provisio that it is "...ABNF [RFC5234] grammar..." >> >> However, I cannot find the production for <OWS> in either >> draft-abarth-origin-05 or [RFC5234]. > > I have no idea what it means. That's what Julian Reschke told me to > put there. We're not trying to be innovative. We're just trying to > spec a normal HTTP header. It's kind of annoying that it's this > tricky > ... OWS is defined in HTTPbis, so you would need to reference <http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-p1-messaging-08#section-1.2.2>, or copy the related ABNF rules (with the risk of future changes in HTTPbis). BR, Julian
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