Header Field Types

(for brainstorming around issue ​ticket #266)

Base ABNF rules

   BWS           = <HTTPbis P1 BWS>
   OWS           = <HTTPbis P1 OWS>

   token         = <HTTPbis P1 token>
   quoted-string = <HTTPbis P1 quoted-string>

   word          = token / quoted-string

   param         = token BWS "=" BWS word

Categories

Parametrized String (PS)

   thing         = <TO BE DONE based on our use cases>

   PS            = thing *( OWS ";" OWS param )

List of Parametrized Strings (LPS)

   LPS            = #PS

Categorization of existing fields

Content-Type

PS (but note the special case in ​RFC2397, Section 3 ("data" URI)

Content-Disposition

PS

Link

LPS