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:
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