Justin Garrison
December 22, 2022

Not .well-known

Posted on December 22, 2022  •  1 minutes  • 70 words

Web servers have lots of common files that are not used by humans. Some of the most common files are robots.txt , favicon.ico , and sitemap.xml which provide different information for web crawlers and browsers.

There’s a growing list of new files which are being thrown into a /.well-known/ directory for many different applications and services. Here are some of the more common common files with examples.

webfinger

security.txt

host-meta

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