Really Simple Discovery


Really Simple Discovery is an XML format and a publishing convention for making services exposed by a blog, or other web software, discoverable by client software.
It is 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 website, or discoverable using the information provided.

History

RSD was authored by Daniel Berlinger in the specification.

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 of what MediaWiki uses is:



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, at https://example.net/rsd.xml.

Contents

Here is a sample RSD file, from :




Blog Munging CMS
http://www.blogmunging.com/
http://www.userdomain.com/







http://www.conversant.com/docs/api/
Additional explanation here.
a value
another value
...






MediaWiki example:







http://mediawiki.org/wiki/API
false



MediaWiki
http://www.mediawiki.org/


Usage of RSD