Glossary

Web Bot Auth

In short

An IETF protocol in which bots and agents sign HTTP requests with HTTP Message Signatures and publish their public keys, so sites can verify the operator without trusting IPs or user agents. 8 Index rows sign with Web Bot Auth, and 4 operators in the ledger served a key directory on 2026-11-04.

Definition

An IETF protocol in which bots and agents sign HTTP requests with HTTP Message Signatures and publish their public keys, so sites can verify the operator without trusting IPs or user agents.

Sourced example

Google signs a subset of Google-Agent requests with Web Bot Auth as https://agent.bot.goog. Source, read 2026-11-04.

How it shows up here

8 Index rows sign with Web Bot Auth, and 4 operators in the ledger served a key directory on 2026-11-04.

• Verify Web Bot Auth signatures
• Verification Ledger
• Web Bot Auth working-group draft reaches -01

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Last reviewed 2026-11-04