Really Simple Discovery

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RSD or Really Simple Discovery is an XML format and a publishing convention for making services exposed by Blog Software (or any other kind of web software for that matter) discoverable by client software. It's a way to reduce the information required to set up editing/blogging software to three well known elements:

  • Username,
  • Password, and
  • homepage URL.

Any other critical settings should either be defined in the RSD file related to the blog, or discoverable using the information provided.

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[edit] History

RSD was proposed by Daniel Berlinger in the Really Simple Discoverability 1.0.

[edit] Format

To make use of RSD, the owner of a site places a link tag in the head section of the homepage which indicates the location of the RSD file. An example:

 <link rel="EditURI" type="application/rsd+xml" title="RSD" href="http://whereever the rsd.xml lives." />

If this tag is missing or the file is not found, clients should look in the default location which is a file named rsd.xml in the webroot. For example:

 http://example.com/rsd.xml

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