{"id":29115,"date":"2018-12-19T11:12:39","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T09:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=29115"},"modified":"2018-12-19T11:12:46","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T09:12:46","slug":"well-known-uris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2018\/12\/19\/well-known-uris\/","title":{"rendered":"Well-Known URIs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n

Back when Let’s Encrypt<\/a> started giving out free SSL certificates, one bit that visible all over the web was the “well-known<\/em>” directory.\u00a0 I never thought much about it – it’s just a name after all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turns out, there is actually an RFC 5785<\/a> that defines a standard for the well-known uniform resource identifiers (URIs).\u00a0 And that’s a lot more generic than just the bit that Let’s Encrypt needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Accidentally stumbled upon this while reading “A Well-Known URL for Changing Passwords<\/a>” draft.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Back when Let’s Encrypt started giving out free SSL certificates, one bit that visible all over the web was the “well-known” directory.\u00a0 I never thought much about it – it’s just a name after all. Turns out, there is actually an RFC 5785 that defines a standard for the well-known uniform resource identifiers (URIs).\u00a0 And … Continue reading Well-Known URIs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Well-Known URIs #WebDev #RFC #security #standards","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,18,133,62,1334],"tags":[3427,2890,200,1216,1330],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-29115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-programming","category-sysadmin","category-technology","category-web-work","tag-lets-encrypt","tag-rfc","tag-security","tag-standards","tag-web-development"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":26208,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2016\/06\/27\/lets-encrypt-on-centos-7-and-amazon-ami\/","url_meta":{"origin":29115,"position":0},"title":"Let’s Encrypt on CentOS 7 and Amazon AMI","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"June 27, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"The last few weeks were super busy at work, so I accidentally let a few SSL certificates expire. \u00a0Renewing them is always annoying and time consuming, so I was pushing it until the last minute, and then some. 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