Overview#

A Well-known URIs are defined in RFC 5785 as a URI (RFC 3986) used as a Discovery Mechanism whose path component begins with the characters "/.well-known/", and whose URI Schemes is "HTTP", "HTTPS", or another URI Schemes that has explicitly been specified to use Well-known URIs.

Defining Well-known URIs (RFC 5785) defines a path prefix for "well-known locations", "/.well-known/", in selected Uniform Resource Identifier URI Schemes.

RFC 5785 also established a IANA Registry Well-Known URIs

Ldapwiki uses these for testing Well-known:

• https://ldapwiki.com/.well-known/ping
• https://ldapwiki.com/.well-known/acme-challenge/test

More Information#

There might be more information for this subject on one of the following:

• Domain Authorization Document
• Domain Validated Certificate
• JSON Resource Descriptor
• OAuth 2.0 Authorization Server Metadata
• OpenID Connect Discovery
• OpenID Connect Endpoints
• OpenID Connect Federation Async
• OpenID Provider Issuer Discovery
• Openid-configuration
• Provider Configuration URI
• RFC 5785
• Resource_set_registration_endpoint
• URI Path
• URI Query
• Uma-configuration
• Web host-meta data
• WebFinger
• Well-Known URIs