Really Simple Discovery (RSD) is an XML format and a publishing convention for making services exposed by a blog, or other web software, discoverable by client software.
Contents
It is a way to reduce the information required to set up editing/blogging software to three well known elements:
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 Really Simple Discoverability 1.0 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:
Contents
Here is a sample RSD file, from "Really Simple Discoverability 1.0":
MediaWiki example: