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Web Payments website and core specifications
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Two .well-known endpoints confusing #1

Open msporny opened 11 years ago

msporny commented 11 years ago

Melvin Carvalho noted that it's difficult to understand the differences between the two .well-known endpoints that PaySwarm uses:

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webpayments/2012Aug/0009.html

While this was meant to separate spec concerns between Web Payments and Web Keys, it is not immediately apparent why we need two files. It may be more pure from a design standpoint... but some people may not care and may just want to have the Web Keys endpoint expressed in /.well-known/payswarm since PaySwarm needs it anyway.

Placing it in one file would reduce the number of overall HTTP requests from PaySwarm clients. We can still keep the old /.well-known/web-keys file around, but move its services into /.well-known/payswarm?