Well-Known Names
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zelviouerace dellielacel The term "Well-Known Names" in relation to URLs refers to the use of "hard-coded" names that allow developers to Construct URLs instead of discovering them via Hypermedia. The best known examples of these Well-known Names are:
- http://mysite.foo/robots.txt
- http://mysite.foo/favicon.ico
- http://mysite.foo/w3c/p3p.xml
- http://mysite.foo/sitemap.xml
- http://mysite.foo/siteinfo.xml
- http://mysite.foo/crossdomain.xml
- http://mysite.foo/smbmeta.xml
Use of well-known names is considered very much A Bad Thing(tm)
- Karl Dubost discusses on the Microformat's Discuss mailing list why well-known names are a bad.
- Joe Gregorio posts No Fishing - or - Why 'robots.txt and 'favicon.ico' are bad ideas and shouldn't be emulated on his blog.
