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Mention in header field considerations that leading/trailing WS is lossy (see #434)

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    451        content: "Expires August 23, 2013";
     451       content: "Expires August 25, 2013";
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    494494      <meta name="dct.creator" content="Reschke, J. F.">
    495495      <meta name="dct.identifier" content="urn:ietf:id:draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics-latest">
    496       <meta name="dct.issued" scheme="ISO8601" content="2013-02-19">
     496      <meta name="dct.issued" scheme="ISO8601" content="2013-02-21">
    497497      <meta name="dct.replaces" content="urn:ietf:rfc:2616">
    498498      <meta name="dct.abstract" content="The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application-level protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypertext information systems. This document defines the semantics of HTTP/1.1 messages, as expressed by request methods, request header fields, response status codes, and response header fields, along with the payload of messages (metadata and body content) and mechanisms for content negotiation.">
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    522522            <tr>
    523523               <td class="left">Intended status: Standards Track</td>
    524                <td class="right">February 19, 2013</td>
     524               <td class="right">February 21, 2013</td>
    525525            </tr>
    526526            <tr>
    527                <td class="left">Expires: August 23, 2013</td>
     527               <td class="left">Expires: August 25, 2013</td>
    528528               <td class="right"></td>
    529529            </tr>
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    553553         in progress”.
    554554      </p>
    555       <p>This Internet-Draft will expire on August 23, 2013.</p>
     555      <p>This Internet-Draft will expire on August 25, 2013.</p>
    556556      <h1><a id="rfc.copyrightnotice" href="#rfc.copyrightnotice">Copyright Notice</a></h1>
    557557      <p>Copyright © 2013 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved.</p>
    … …  
    35623562         can use an encoding such as the one defined in <a href="#RFC5987" id="rfc.xref.RFC5987.1"><cite title="Character Set and Language Encoding for Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Header Field Parameters">[RFC5987]</cite></a>.
    35633563      </p>
    3564       <p id="rfc.section.8.3.1.p.4">Because commas (",") are used as a generic delimiter between field-values, they need to be treated with care if they are allowed
     3564      <p id="rfc.section.8.3.1.p.4">Leading and trailing whitespace in raw field values is removed upon field parsing (<a href="p1-messaging.html#field.parsing" title="Field Parsing">Section 3.2.4</a> of <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.33"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and Routing">[Part1]</cite></a>). Field definitions where leading or trailing whitespace in values is significant will have to use a container syntax such
     3565         as quoted-string.
     3566      </p>
     3567      <p id="rfc.section.8.3.1.p.5">Because commas (",") are used as a generic delimiter between field-values, they need to be treated with care if they are allowed
    35653568         in the field-value. Typically, components that might contain a comma are protected with double-quotes using the quoted-string
    3566          ABNF production (<a href="p1-messaging.html#field.components" title="Field value components">Section 3.2.6</a> of <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.33"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and Routing">[Part1]</cite></a>).
    3567       </p>
    3568       <p id="rfc.section.8.3.1.p.5">For example, a textual date and a URI (either of which might contain a comma) could be safely carried in field-values like
     3569         ABNF production (<a href="p1-messaging.html#field.components" title="Field value components">Section 3.2.6</a> of <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.34"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and Routing">[Part1]</cite></a>).
     3570      </p>
     3571      <p id="rfc.section.8.3.1.p.6">For example, a textual date and a URI (either of which might contain a comma) could be safely carried in field-values like
    35693572         these:
    35703573      </p>
    … …  
    35723575                     "http://without-a-comma.example.com/"
    35733576  Example-Date-Field: "Sat, 04 May 1996", "Wed, 14 Sep 2005"
    3574 </pre><p id="rfc.section.8.3.1.p.7">Note that double-quote delimiters almost always are used with the quoted-string production; using a different syntax inside
     3577</pre><p id="rfc.section.8.3.1.p.8">Note that double-quote delimiters almost always are used with the quoted-string production; using a different syntax inside
    35753578         double-quotes will likely cause unnecessary confusion.
    35763579      </p>
    3577       <p id="rfc.section.8.3.1.p.8">Many header fields use a format including (case-insensitively) named parameters (for instance, <a href="#header.content-type" class="smpl">Content-Type</a>, defined in <a href="#header.content-type" id="rfc.xref.header.content-type.3" title="Content-Type">Section&nbsp;3.1.1.5</a>). Allowing both unquoted (token) and quoted (quoted-string) syntax for the parameter value enables recipients to use existing
     3580      <p id="rfc.section.8.3.1.p.9">Many header fields use a format including (case-insensitively) named parameters (for instance, <a href="#header.content-type" class="smpl">Content-Type</a>, defined in <a href="#header.content-type" id="rfc.xref.header.content-type.3" title="Content-Type">Section&nbsp;3.1.1.5</a>). Allowing both unquoted (token) and quoted (quoted-string) syntax for the parameter value enables recipients to use existing
    35783581         parser components. When allowing both forms, the meaning of a parameter value ought to be independent of the syntax used for
    35793582         it (for an example, see the notes on parameter handling for media types in <a href="#media.type" title="Media Type">Section&nbsp;3.1.1.1</a>).
    35803583      </p>
    3581       <p id="rfc.section.8.3.1.p.9">Authors of specifications defining new header fields are advised to consider documenting: </p>
     3584      <p id="rfc.section.8.3.1.p.10">Authors of specifications defining new header fields are advised to consider documenting: </p>
    35823585      <ul>
    35833586         <li>
    3584             <p>Whether the field is a single value, or whether it can be a list (delimited by commas; see <a href="p1-messaging.html#header.fields" title="Header Fields">Section 3.2</a> of <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.34"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and Routing">[Part1]</cite></a>).
     3587            <p>Whether the field is a single value, or whether it can be a list (delimited by commas; see <a href="p1-messaging.html#header.fields" title="Header Fields">Section 3.2</a> of <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.35"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and Routing">[Part1]</cite></a>).
    35853588            </p>
    35863589            <p>If it does not use the list syntax, document how to treat messages where the field occurs multiple times (a sensible default
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    36023605         </li>
    36033606         <li>
    3604             <p>Whether it is appropriate to list the field-name in the <a href="p1-messaging.html#header.connection" class="smpl">Connection</a> header field (i.e., if the header field is to be hop-by-hop; see <a href="p1-messaging.html#header.connection" title="Connection">Section 6.1</a> of <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.35"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and Routing">[Part1]</cite></a>).
     3607            <p>Whether it is appropriate to list the field-name in the <a href="p1-messaging.html#header.connection" class="smpl">Connection</a> header field (i.e., if the header field is to be hop-by-hop; see <a href="p1-messaging.html#header.connection" title="Connection">Section 6.1</a> of <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.36"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and Routing">[Part1]</cite></a>).
    36053608            </p>
    36063609         </li>
    … …  
    36133616         </li>
    36143617         <li>
    3615             <p>Whether the header field is useful or allowable in trailers (see <a href="p1-messaging.html#chunked.encoding" title="Chunked Transfer Coding">Section 4.1</a> of <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.36"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and Routing">[Part1]</cite></a>).
     3618            <p>Whether the header field is useful or allowable in trailers (see <a href="p1-messaging.html#chunked.encoding" title="Chunked Transfer Coding">Section 4.1</a> of <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.37"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and Routing">[Part1]</cite></a>).
    36163619            </p>
    36173620         </li>
    … …  
    37793782      <p id="rfc.section.8.3.2.p.2">The change controller for the above registrations is: "IETF (iesg@ietf.org) - Internet Engineering Task Force".</p>
    37803783      <h2 id="rfc.section.8.4"><a href="#rfc.section.8.4">8.4</a>&nbsp;<a id="content.coding.registry" href="#content.coding.registry">Content Coding Registry</a></h2>
    3781       <p id="rfc.section.8.4.p.1">The HTTP Content Coding Registry defines the name space for content coding names (<a href="p1-messaging.html#compression.codings" title="Compression Codings">Section 4.2</a> of <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.37"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and Routing">[Part1]</cite></a>). The content coding registry is maintained at &lt;<a href="http://www.iana.org/assignments/http-parameters">http://www.iana.org/assignments/http-parameters</a>&gt;.
     3784      <p id="rfc.section.8.4.p.1">The HTTP Content Coding Registry defines the name space for content coding names (<a href="p1-messaging.html#compression.codings" title="Compression Codings">Section 4.2</a> of <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.38"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and Routing">[Part1]</cite></a>). The content coding registry is maintained at &lt;<a href="http://www.iana.org/assignments/http-parameters">http://www.iana.org/assignments/http-parameters</a>&gt;.
    37823785      </p>
    37833786      <h3 id="rfc.section.8.4.1"><a href="#rfc.section.8.4.1">8.4.1</a>&nbsp;<a id="content.coding.procedure" href="#content.coding.procedure">Procedure</a></h3>
    … …  
    37893792         <li>Pointer to specification text</li>
    37903793      </ul>
    3791       <p id="rfc.section.8.4.1.p.2">Names of content codings <em class="bcp14">MUST NOT</em> overlap with names of transfer codings (<a href="p1-messaging.html#transfer.codings" title="Transfer Codings">Section 4</a> of <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.38"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and Routing">[Part1]</cite></a>), unless the encoding transformation is identical (as is the case for the compression codings defined in <a href="p1-messaging.html#compression.codings" title="Compression Codings">Section 4.2</a> of <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.39"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and Routing">[Part1]</cite></a>).
     3794      <p id="rfc.section.8.4.1.p.2">Names of content codings <em class="bcp14">MUST NOT</em> overlap with names of transfer codings (<a href="p1-messaging.html#transfer.codings" title="Transfer Codings">Section 4</a> of <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.39"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and Routing">[Part1]</cite></a>), unless the encoding transformation is identical (as is the case for the compression codings defined in <a href="p1-messaging.html#compression.codings" title="Compression Codings">Section 4.2</a> of <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.40"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and Routing">[Part1]</cite></a>).
    37923795      </p>
    37933796      <p id="rfc.section.8.4.1.p.3">Values to be added to this name space require IETF Review (see <a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5226#section-4.1">Section 4.1</a> of <a href="#RFC5226" id="rfc.xref.RFC5226.3"><cite title="Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs">[RFC5226]</cite></a>), and <em class="bcp14">MUST</em> conform to the purpose of content coding defined in this section.
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    38093812                  <td class="left">compress</td>
    38103813                  <td class="left">UNIX "compress" program method</td>
    3811                   <td class="left"> <a href="p1-messaging.html#compress.coding" title="Compress Coding">Section 4.2.1</a> of <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.40"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and Routing">[Part1]</cite></a>
     3814                  <td class="left"> <a href="p1-messaging.html#compress.coding" title="Compress Coding">Section 4.2.1</a> of <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.41"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and Routing">[Part1]</cite></a>
    38123815                  </td>
    38133816               </tr>
    … …  
    38163819                  <td class="left">"deflate" compression mechanism (<a href="#RFC1951" id="rfc.xref.RFC1951.1"><cite title="DEFLATE Compressed Data Format Specification version 1.3">[RFC1951]</cite></a>) used inside the "zlib" data format (<a href="#RFC1950" id="rfc.xref.RFC1950.1"><cite title="ZLIB Compressed Data Format Specification version 3.3">[RFC1950]</cite></a>)
    38173820                  </td>
    3818                   <td class="left"> <a href="p1-messaging.html#deflate.coding" title="Deflate Coding">Section 4.2.2</a> of <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.41"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and Routing">[Part1]</cite></a>
     3821                  <td class="left"> <a href="p1-messaging.html#deflate.coding" title="Deflate Coding">Section 4.2.2</a> of <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.42"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and Routing">[Part1]</cite></a>
    38193822                  </td>
    38203823               </tr>
    … …  
    38223825                  <td class="left">gzip</td>
    38233826                  <td class="left">Same as GNU zip <a href="#RFC1952" id="rfc.xref.RFC1952.1"><cite title="GZIP file format specification version 4.3">[RFC1952]</cite></a></td>
    3824                   <td class="left"> <a href="p1-messaging.html#gzip.coding" title="Gzip Coding">Section 4.2.3</a> of <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.42"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and Routing">[Part1]</cite></a>
     3827                  <td class="left"> <a href="p1-messaging.html#gzip.coding" title="Gzip Coding">Section 4.2.3</a> of <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.43"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and Routing">[Part1]</cite></a>
    38253828                  </td>
    38263829               </tr>
    … …  
    38743877      </p>
    38753878      <h2 id="rfc.section.9.4"><a href="#rfc.section.9.4">9.4</a>&nbsp;<a id="sensitive.information.in.product" href="#sensitive.information.in.product">Product Information</a></h2>
    3876       <p id="rfc.section.9.4.p.1">The <a href="#header.user-agent" class="smpl">User-Agent</a> (<a href="#header.user-agent" id="rfc.xref.header.user-agent.4" title="User-Agent">Section&nbsp;5.5.3</a>), <a href="p1-messaging.html#header.via" class="smpl">Via</a> (<a href="p1-messaging.html#header.via" title="Via">Section 5.7.1</a> of <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.43"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and Routing">[Part1]</cite></a>), and <a href="#header.server" class="smpl">Server</a> (<a href="#header.server" id="rfc.xref.header.server.3" title="Server">Section&nbsp;7.4.2</a>) header fields often reveal information about the respective sender's software systems. In theory, this can make it easier
     3879      <p id="rfc.section.9.4.p.1">The <a href="#header.user-agent" class="smpl">User-Agent</a> (<a href="#header.user-agent" id="rfc.xref.header.user-agent.4" title="User-Agent">Section&nbsp;5.5.3</a>), <a href="p1-messaging.html#header.via" class="smpl">Via</a> (<a href="p1-messaging.html#header.via" title="Via">Section 5.7.1</a> of <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.44"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and Routing">[Part1]</cite></a>), and <a href="#header.server" class="smpl">Server</a> (<a href="#header.server" id="rfc.xref.header.server.3" title="Server">Section&nbsp;7.4.2</a>) header fields often reveal information about the respective sender's software systems. In theory, this can make it easier
    38773880         for an attacker to exploit known security holes; in practice, attackers tend to try all potential holes regardless of the
    38783881         apparent software versions being used.
    … …  
    39163919      </p>
    39173920      <h1 id="rfc.section.10"><a href="#rfc.section.10">10.</a>&nbsp;<a id="acks" href="#acks">Acknowledgments</a></h1>
    3918       <p id="rfc.section.10.p.1">See <a href="p1-messaging.html#acks" title="Acknowledgments">Section 9</a> of <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.44"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and Routing">[Part1]</cite></a>.
     3921      <p id="rfc.section.10.p.1">See <a href="p1-messaging.html#acks" title="Acknowledgments">Section 9</a> of <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.45"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and Routing">[Part1]</cite></a>.
    39193922      </p>
    39203923      <h1 id="rfc.references"><a id="rfc.section.11" href="#rfc.section.11">11.</a> References
    … …  
    41924195      </p>
    41934196      <p id="rfc.section.B.p.6">The Content-MD5 header field has been removed because it was inconsistently implemented with respect to partial responses.</p>
    4194       <p id="rfc.section.B.p.7">To be consistent with the method-neutral parsing algorithm of <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.45"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and Routing">[Part1]</cite></a>, the definition of GET has been relaxed so that requests can have a body, even though a body has no meaning for GET (<a href="#GET" id="rfc.xref.GET.5" title="GET">Section&nbsp;4.3.1</a>).
     4197      <p id="rfc.section.B.p.7">To be consistent with the method-neutral parsing algorithm of <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.46"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and Routing">[Part1]</cite></a>, the definition of GET has been relaxed so that requests can have a body, even though a body has no meaning for GET (<a href="#GET" id="rfc.xref.GET.5" title="GET">Section&nbsp;4.3.1</a>).
    41954198      </p>
    41964199      <p id="rfc.section.B.p.8">Servers are no longer required to handle all Content-* header fields and use of <a href="p5-range.html#header.content-range" class="smpl">Content-Range</a> has been explicitly banned in PUT requests (<a href="#PUT" id="rfc.xref.PUT.4" title="PUT">Section&nbsp;4.3.4</a>).
    … …  
    42484251         (any visible US-ASCII character).
    42494252      </p>
    4250       <p id="rfc.section.C.p.2">The rules below are defined in <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.46"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and Routing">[Part1]</cite></a>:
    4251       </p>
    4252       <div id="rfc.figure.u.64"></div><pre class="inline">  <a href="#imported.abnf" class="smpl">BWS</a>           = &lt;BWS, defined in <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.47"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and Routing">[Part1]</cite></a>, <a href="p1-messaging.html#whitespace" title="Whitespace">Section 3.2.3</a>&gt;
    4253   <a href="#imported.abnf" class="smpl">OWS</a>           = &lt;OWS, defined in <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.48"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and Routing">[Part1]</cite></a>, <a href="p1-messaging.html#whitespace" title="Whitespace">Section 3.2.3</a>&gt;
    4254   <a href="#imported.abnf" class="smpl">RWS</a>           = &lt;RWS, defined in <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.49"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and Routing">[Part1]</cite></a>, <a href="p1-messaging.html#whitespace" title="Whitespace">Section 3.2.3</a>&gt;
    4255   <a href="#imported.abnf" class="smpl">URI-reference</a> = &lt;URI-reference, defined in <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.50"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and Routing">[Part1]</cite></a>, <a href="p1-messaging.html#uri" title="Uniform Resource Identifiers">Section 2.7</a>&gt;
    4256   <a href="#imported.abnf" class="smpl">absolute-URI</a>  = &lt;absolute-URI, defined in <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.51"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and Routing">[Part1]</cite></a>, <a href="p1-messaging.html#uri" title="Uniform Resource Identifiers">Section 2.7</a>&gt;
    4257   <a href="#imported.abnf" class="smpl">comment</a>       = &lt;comment, defined in <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.52"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and Routing">[Part1]</cite></a>, <a href="p1-messaging.html#field.components" title="Field value components">Section 3.2.6</a>&gt;
    4258   <a href="#imported.abnf" class="smpl">field-name</a>    = &lt;comment, defined in <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.53"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and Routing">[Part1]</cite></a>, <a href="p1-messaging.html#header.fields" title="Header Fields">Section 3.2</a>&gt;
    4259   <a href="#imported.abnf" class="smpl">partial-URI</a>   = &lt;partial-URI, defined in <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.54"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and Routing">[Part1]</cite></a>, <a href="p1-messaging.html#uri" title="Uniform Resource Identifiers">Section 2.7</a>&gt;
    4260   <a href="#imported.abnf" class="smpl">quoted-string</a> = &lt;quoted-string, defined in <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.55"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and Routing">[Part1]</cite></a>, <a href="p1-messaging.html#field.components" title="Field value components">Section 3.2.6</a>&gt;
    4261   <a href="#imported.abnf" class="smpl">token</a>         = &lt;token, defined in <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.56"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and Routing">[Part1]</cite></a>, <a href="p1-messaging.html#field.components" title="Field value components">Section 3.2.6</a>&gt;
    4262   <a href="#imported.abnf" class="smpl">word</a>          = &lt;word, defined in <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.57"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and Routing">[Part1]</cite></a>, <a href="p1-messaging.html#field.components" title="Field value components">Section 3.2.6</a>&gt;
     4253      <p id="rfc.section.C.p.2">The rules below are defined in <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.47"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and Routing">[Part1]</cite></a>:
     4254      </p>
     4255      <div id="rfc.figure.u.64"></div><pre class="inline">  <a href="#imported.abnf" class="smpl">BWS</a>           = &lt;BWS, defined in <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.48"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and Routing">[Part1]</cite></a>, <a href="p1-messaging.html#whitespace" title="Whitespace">Section 3.2.3</a>&gt;
     4256  <a href="#imported.abnf" class="smpl">OWS</a>           = &lt;OWS, defined in <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.49"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and Routing">[Part1]</cite></a>, <a href="p1-messaging.html#whitespace" title="Whitespace">Section 3.2.3</a>&gt;
     4257  <a href="#imported.abnf" class="smpl">RWS</a>           = &lt;RWS, defined in <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.50"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and Routing">[Part1]</cite></a>, <a href="p1-messaging.html#whitespace" title="Whitespace">Section 3.2.3</a>&gt;
     4258  <a href="#imported.abnf" class="smpl">URI-reference</a> = &lt;URI-reference, defined in <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.51"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and Routing">[Part1]</cite></a>, <a href="p1-messaging.html#uri" title="Uniform Resource Identifiers">Section 2.7</a>&gt;
     4259  <a href="#imported.abnf" class="smpl">absolute-URI</a>  = &lt;absolute-URI, defined in <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.52"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and Routing">[Part1]</cite></a>, <a href="p1-messaging.html#uri" title="Uniform Resource Identifiers">Section 2.7</a>&gt;
     4260  <a href="#imported.abnf" class="smpl">comment</a>       = &lt;comment, defined in <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.53"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and Routing">[Part1]</cite></a>, <a href="p1-messaging.html#field.components" title="Field value components">Section 3.2.6</a>&gt;
     4261  <a href="#imported.abnf" class="smpl">field-name</a>    = &lt;comment, defined in <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.54"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and Routing">[Part1]</cite></a>, <a href="p1-messaging.html#header.fields" title="Header Fields">Section 3.2</a>&gt;
     4262  <a href="#imported.abnf" class="smpl">partial-URI</a>   = &lt;partial-URI, defined in <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.55"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and Routing">[Part1]</cite></a>, <a href="p1-messaging.html#uri" title="Uniform Resource Identifiers">Section 2.7</a>&gt;
     4263  <a href="#imported.abnf" class="smpl">quoted-string</a> = &lt;quoted-string, defined in <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.56"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and Routing">[Part1]</cite></a>, <a href="p1-messaging.html#field.components" title="Field value components">Section 3.2.6</a>&gt;
     4264  <a href="#imported.abnf" class="smpl">token</a>         = &lt;token, defined in <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.57"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and Routing">[Part1]</cite></a>, <a href="p1-messaging.html#field.components" title="Field value components">Section 3.2.6</a>&gt;
     4265  <a href="#imported.abnf" class="smpl">word</a>          = &lt;word, defined in <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.58"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and Routing">[Part1]</cite></a>, <a href="p1-messaging.html#field.components" title="Field value components">Section 3.2.6</a>&gt;
    42634266</pre><h1 id="rfc.section.D"><a href="#rfc.section.D">D.</a>&nbsp;<a id="collected.abnf" href="#collected.abnf">Collected ABNF</a></h1>
    42644267      <div id="rfc.figure.u.65"></div> <pre class="inline"><a href="#header.accept" class="smpl">Accept</a> = [ ( "," / ( media-range [ accept-params ] ) ) *( OWS "," [
    … …  
    44284431         </li>
    44294432         <li> &lt;<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/428">http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/428</a>&gt;: "Accept-Language ordering for identical qvalues"
     4433         </li>
     4434         <li> &lt;<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/434">http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/434</a>&gt;: "mention in header field considerations that leading/trailing WS is lossy"
    44304435         </li>
    44314436      </ul>
    … …  
    46284633            </li>
    46294634            <li><a id="rfc.index.P" href="#rfc.index.P"><b>P</b></a><ul>
    4630                   <li><em>Part1</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.1">1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.2">1.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.3">1.2</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.4">2</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.5">2</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.6">2</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.7">3.1.2.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.8">3.1.2.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.9">3.1.2.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.10">3.1.2.2</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.11">3.1.4.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.12">3.1.4.2</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.13">3.3</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.14">3.3</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.15">4.3.6</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.16">4.3.7</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.17">4.3.8</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.18">4.3.8</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.19">5.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.20">5.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.21">5.5.3</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.22">6.2.2</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.23">6.3.4</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.24">6.5.7</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.25">6.5.10</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.26">6.5.12</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.27">6.5.15</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.28">6.6.6</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.29">7.4.2</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.30">8.1.2</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.31">8.3.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.32">8.3.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.33">8.3.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.34">8.3.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.35">8.3.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.36">8.3.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.37">8.4</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.38">8.4.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.39">8.4.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.40">8.4.2</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.41">8.4.2</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.42">8.4.2</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.43">9.4</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.44">10</a>, <a href="#Part1"><b>11.1</b></a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.45">B</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.46">C</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.47">C</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.48">C</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.49">C</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.50">C</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.51">C</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.52">C</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.53">C</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.54">C</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.55">C</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.56">C</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.57">C</a><ul>
     4635                  <li><em>Part1</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.1">1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.2">1.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.3">1.2</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.4">2</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.5">2</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.6">2</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.7">3.1.2.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.8">3.1.2.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.9">3.1.2.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.10">3.1.2.2</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.11">3.1.4.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.12">3.1.4.2</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.13">3.3</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.14">3.3</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.15">4.3.6</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.16">4.3.7</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.17">4.3.8</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.18">4.3.8</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.19">5.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.20">5.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.21">5.5.3</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.22">6.2.2</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.23">6.3.4</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.24">6.5.7</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.25">6.5.10</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.26">6.5.12</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.27">6.5.15</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.28">6.6.6</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.29">7.4.2</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.30">8.1.2</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.31">8.3.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.32">8.3.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.33">8.3.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.34">8.3.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.35">8.3.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.36">8.3.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.37">8.3.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.38">8.4</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.39">8.4.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.40">8.4.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.41">8.4.2</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.42">8.4.2</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.43">8.4.2</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.44">9.4</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.45">10</a>, <a href="#Part1"><b>11.1</b></a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.46">B</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.47">C</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.48">C</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.49">C</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.50">C</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.51">C</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.52">C</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.53">C</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.54">C</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.55">C</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.56">C</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.57">C</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.58">C</a><ul>
    46314636                        <li><em>Section 1.2</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.3">1.2</a></li>
    46324637                        <li><em>Section 2.5</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.2">1.1</a></li>
    46334638                        <li><em>Section 2.6</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.28">6.6.6</a></li>
    4634                         <li><em>Section 2.7</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.4">2</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.50">C</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.51">C</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.54">C</a></li>
    4635                         <li><em>Section 3.2</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.21">5.5.3</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.29">7.4.2</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.31">8.3.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.34">8.3.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.53">C</a></li>
    4636                         <li><em>Section 3.2.3</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.47">C</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.48">C</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.49">C</a></li>
    4637                         <li><em>Section 3.2.6</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.33">8.3.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.52">C</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.55">C</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.56">C</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.57">C</a></li>
     4639                        <li><em>Section 2.7</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.4">2</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.51">C</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.52">C</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.55">C</a></li>
     4640                        <li><em>Section 3.2</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.21">5.5.3</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.29">7.4.2</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.31">8.3.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.35">8.3.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.54">C</a></li>
     4641                        <li><em>Section 3.2.3</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.48">C</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.49">C</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.50">C</a></li>
     4642                        <li><em>Section 3.2.4</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.33">8.3.1</a></li>
     4643                        <li><em>Section 3.2.6</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.34">8.3.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.53">C</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.56">C</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.57">C</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.58">C</a></li>
    46384644                        <li><em>Section 3.3.1</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.10">3.1.2.2</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.14">3.3</a></li>
    46394645                        <li><em>Section 3.3</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.30">8.1.2</a></li>
    46404646                        <li><em>Section 3.3.2</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.13">3.3</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.25">6.5.10</a></li>
    4641                         <li><em>Section 4</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.38">8.4.1</a></li>
    4642                         <li><em>Section 4.1</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.36">8.3.1</a></li>
    4643                         <li><em>Section 4.2.1</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.7">3.1.2.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.40">8.4.2</a></li>
    4644                         <li><em>Section 4.2</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.37">8.4</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.39">8.4.1</a></li>
    4645                         <li><em>Section 4.2.2</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.8">3.1.2.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.41">8.4.2</a></li>
    4646                         <li><em>Section 4.2.3</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.9">3.1.2.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.42">8.4.2</a></li>
     4647                        <li><em>Section 4</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.39">8.4.1</a></li>
     4648                        <li><em>Section 4.1</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.37">8.3.1</a></li>
     4649                        <li><em>Section 4.2.1</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.7">3.1.2.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.41">8.4.2</a></li>
     4650                        <li><em>Section 4.2</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.38">8.4</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.40">8.4.1</a></li>
     4651                        <li><em>Section 4.2.2</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.8">3.1.2.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.42">8.4.2</a></li>
     4652                        <li><em>Section 4.2.3</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.9">3.1.2.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.43">8.4.2</a></li>
    46474653                        <li><em>Section 4.3</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.20">5.1</a></li>
    46484654                        <li><em>Section 5.3</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.5">2</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.15">4.3.6</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.16">4.3.7</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.26">6.5.12</a></li>
    46494655                        <li><em>Section 5.4</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.19">5.1</a></li>
    46504656                        <li><em>Section 5.5</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.6">2</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.11">3.1.4.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.12">3.1.4.2</a></li>
    4651                         <li><em>Section 5.7.1</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.18">4.3.8</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.43">9.4</a></li>
     4657                        <li><em>Section 5.7.1</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.18">4.3.8</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.44">9.4</a></li>
    46524658                        <li><em>Section 5.7.2</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.23">6.3.4</a></li>
    4653                         <li><em>Section 6.1</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.24">6.5.7</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.35">8.3.1</a></li>
     4659                        <li><em>Section 6.1</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.24">6.5.7</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.36">8.3.1</a></li>
    46544660                        <li><em>Section 6.7</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.22">6.2.2</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.27">6.5.15</a></li>
    46554661                        <li><em>Section 7.3.1</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.17">4.3.8</a></li>
    4656                         <li><em>Section 9</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.44">10</a></li>
     4662                        <li><em>Section 9</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.45">10</a></li>
    46574663                        <li><em>Appendix B</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.32">8.3.1</a></li>
    46584664                     </ul>
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