News from 2026-11-02
Signed-Agent-Metadata header proposed for Web Bot Auth
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2 November 2026: Signed-Agent-Metadata header proposed for Web Bot Auth. draft-vilgalys-webbotauth-signed-agent-metadata-00 proposes an HTTP header that carries signed metadata about the agent alongside a Web Bot Auth signature. For a site owner nothing changes yet: a proposed header is not something any operator sends today, so no rule needs to change.
draft-vilgalys-webbotauth-signed-agent-metadata-00 proposes an HTTP header that carries signed metadata about the agent alongside a Web Bot Auth signature.
Primary source datatracker.ietf.org/wg/webbotauth/documents/, read 2026-11-04.
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Last reviewed 2026-11-04