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The ".well-known" directory on webservers (aka: RFC 5785)

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This link appeared in WDRL 184 on 02.06.2017.

The ".well-known" directory on webservers (aka: RFC 5785)

Have you already heard of the .well-known/ directory on web servers? This relatively new standard is used to announce directives to browsers. Let’s Encrypt, for example, uses it for their validation URLs.