以下核心规则包含在RFC RFC347的附录B.1中:ALPHA(字母),CR(回车),CRLF(CR LF),CTL(对照),DIGIT(十进制0-9) ,DQUOTE(双引号),HEXDIG(十六进制0-9 / AF / af),HTAB(水平制表符),LF(换行符),OCTET(任何8位数据序列),SP(空格)和VCHAR 任何可见的US-ASCII字符)。

    以下规则定义在RFC7230中:

    1. BWS = <BWS, see [RFC7230], Section 3.2.3>
    2. OWS = <OWS, see [RFC7230], Section 3.2.3>
    3. RWS = <RWS, see [RFC7230], Section 3.2.3>
    4. URI-reference = <URI-reference, see [RFC7230], Section 2.7>
    5. absolute-URI = <absolute-URI, see [RFC7230], Section 2.7>
    6. comment = <comment, see [RFC7230], Section 3.2.6>
    7. field-name = <comment, see [RFC7230], Section 3.2>
    8. partial-URI = <partial-URI, see [RFC7230], Section 2.7>
    9. quoted-string = <quoted-string, see [RFC7230], Section 3.2.6>
    10. token = <token, see [RFC7230], Section 3.2.6>