Re: Alternate service framework: question about Alt-Svc HTTP Header Field from Martin Thomson on 2014-03-05 (ietf-http-wg@w3.org from January to March 2014)

From: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2014 18:05:28 +0000
To: "emile.stephan@orange.com" <emile.stephan@orange.com>
Cc: "Mark Nottingham (mnot@mnot.net)" <mnot@mnot.net>, "ietf-http-wg@w3.org" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CABkgnnWkpjjMORu0tbakaoQ9eqQX4r93TUt1S9zB-_MH-_x95w@mail.gmail.com>

On 5 March 2014 17:42,  <emile.stephan@orange.com> wrote:
> What is the OWS parameter ? is it another alternate port or can it be
> ancillary parameters ?


That is an ABNF product that is used in HTTP to define header fields.
It defines "optional whitespace".

   OWS = *( SP / HTAB )

-- http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-p1-messaging-26#appendix-B

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