Making text appear in a box

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Sorry if this is similar to previous questions, but I need to check if this is the best solution. My issue is that I am writing a document which contains HTTP messages for example of a snippet:

   message-header = field-name ":" [ field-value ]
   field-name     = token
   field-value    = *( field-content | LWS )
   field-content  = <the OCTETs making up the field-value
                    and consisting of either *TEXT or combinations
                    of token, separators, and quoted-string>

much like when using this website the message appears in a grey box is there a best practice way to do this in latex? I have found the following link: Box or sidebar for additional text and was wondering whether this is the best solution. I was also hoping to omit the text from a wordcount if possible. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated - I am hoping for the following kind of effect:

I really do not understand what are you after. Could you be a bit more specific? — yo', Aug 18 '15 at 17:08
Perhaps this is a duplicate? Source code listing with frame around code? On the counting issue, word counting is really hard in TeX, but the texcount program does a pretty usable job and is able to selectively remove environments from the count. — Alan Munn, Aug 18 '15 at 17:18
@AlanMunn: The linked post seem to require the addition of a caption, which this question does not. But that might be splitting hairs. — Werner, Aug 18 '15 at 17:24
@Werner well caption or not the basic principle seems to be the same. Alternatively How to make a box containing LaTeX output? but I think the first one is better. — Alan Munn, Aug 18 '15 at 17:27

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 18 '15 at 17:22

Consider using tcolorbox's listings option:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[listings]{tcolorbox}

\begin{document}

\begin{tcblisting}{listing only}
message-header = field-name ":" [ field-value ]
field-name     = token
field-value    = *( field-content | LWS )
field-content  = <the OCTETs making up the field-value
                 and consisting of either *TEXT or combinations
                 of token, separators, and quoted-string>
\end{tcblisting}

\end{document}

Making text appear in a box

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