Read the original article: Not Everything About “.well-known” is Well Known, (Mon, Sep 14th)
More than 10 years ago, a first RFC was published describing the “.well-known” directory for web servers. The idea is pretty simple: Provide a standard location for files that are mostly intended for signaling and automatic retrieval. Before the introduction of .well-known, these files often ended up litering the document root, like for example robots.txt being probably the most popular example. Currently, .well-known is defined by RFC8615 [https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8615] .
Read the original article: Not Everything About “.well-known” is Well Known, (Mon, Sep 14th)