http://simonwillison.net/2010-04-11T19:32:28+00:00Simon Willison2010-04-11T19:32:28+00:002010-04-11T19:32:28+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2010/Apr/11/rfc/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5785.txt">RFC5785: Defining Well-Known Uniform Resource Identifiers</a></strong></p> Sounds like a very good idea to me: defining a common prefix of /.well-known/ for well-known URLs (common metadata like robots.txt) and establishing a registry for all such files. OAuth, OpenID and other decentralised identity systems can all benefit from this. <p><small></small>Via <a href="http://www.mnot.net/blog/2010/04/07/well-known">Mark Nottingham</a></small></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/oauth">oauth</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/openid">openid</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/rfc">rfc</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/robots-txt">robots-txt</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/urls">urls</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/wellknownurls">wellknownurls</a></p>