RFC 5785: Defining Well-Known Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs)

This memo defines a path prefix for "well-known locations", "/.well-known/", in selected Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) schemes. [STANDARDS-TRACK]

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Outgoing relationships (6 related RFCs)

Updates, Informative reference — RFC 2616: Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1
Updates — RFC 2818: HTTP Over TLS
Normative reference — RFC 2119: Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels
Normative reference — RFC 5226: Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs
Normative reference — RFC 3986: Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax
Informative reference — RFC 4918: HTTP Extensions for Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV)

Incoming relationships (16 related RFCs)

Obsoleted by — RFC 8615: Well-Known Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7252: The Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7030: Enrollment over Secure Transport
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6920: Naming Things with Hashes
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7486: HTTP Origin-Bound Authentication (HOBA)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7072: A Reputation Query Protocol
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7711: PKIX over Secure HTTP (POSH)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7808: Time Zone Data Distribution Service
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8164: Opportunistic Security for HTTP/2
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6764: Locating Services for Calendaring Extensions to WebDAV (CalDAV) and vCard Extensions to WebDAV (CardDAV)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7712: Domain Name Associations (DNA) in the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8307: Well-Known URIs for the WebSocket Protocol
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6690: Constrained RESTful Environments (CoRE) Link Format
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6940: REsource LOcation And Discovery (RELOAD) Base Protocol
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7635: Session Traversal Utilities for NAT (STUN) Extension for Third-Party Authorization
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7320: URI Design and Ownership