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[Why not allow sites to override this location with an HTTP Link header or an HTML `link` element?](#why-not-allow-sites-to-override-this-location-with-an-http-link-header-or-an-html-link-element)\n  - [Why not serve a JSON resource with links to other account management functions?](#why-not-serve-a-json-resource-with-links-to-other-account-management-functions)\n  - [What tools have implemented this feature?](#what-tools-have-implemented-this-feature)\n  - [What about servers whose HTTP response codes are unreliable?](#what-about-servers-whose-http-response-codes-are-unreliable)\n\n\u003c!-- END doctoc generated TOC please keep comment here to allow auto update --\u003e\n\nCurrently, if the user of a password manager would like to change their password on `example.com`, basically all the password manager can do is load `example.com` in a browser tab and hope the user can figure out how to update their password themselves.\n\nThe goal of this [specification](https://w3c.github.io/webappsec-change-password-url/) is to do the simplest possible thing to improve this situation, by defining the \u003ccode\u003e/.well-known/change-password\u003c/code\u003e [well-known resource](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5785).\n\n## Proposal\n\n`example.com` provides a `/.well-known/change-password` resource which redirects to their change password form, wherever it happens to already be.\n\nPassword managers check for the existence of `/.well-known/change-password` on `https://example.com`.\n\nIf it's there (the response code is `2xx` or `3xx`), the password manager can cause the user's browser to navigate there when the user indicates they'd like to change their password.\n\nThat's it, really. It's a pretty simple idea.\n\n## Frequently Asked Questions\n\n### Why not allow sites to override this location with an HTTP Link header or an HTML `link` element?\n\nImplementation complexity. (This would require keeping site-specific state client-side, verifying \u0026 invalidating said state periodically, etc.)\n\n### Why not serve a JSON resource with links to other account management functions?\n\nSpecification complexity. If we determine we need other account management well-known resources in the future, we can specify them then.\n\n### What tools have implemented this feature?\n\n* iCloud Keychain on iOS 12\n* Safari 12\n* 1Password (1Password 8 and 1Password for Chrome, Firefox, Edge and macOS Safari)\n* Chrome 86\n* [Backdrop CMS](https://backdropcms.org/), via the [Well-known module](https://backdropcms.org/project/well_known).\n\n### What about servers whose HTTP response codes are unreliable?\n\nSometimes, HTTP servers are configured to respond `200 OK` for resources that really aren't there. The [Detecting the reliability of HTTP status codes](https://w3c.github.io/webappsec-change-password-url/response-code-reliability.html) draft attempts to address this problem.\n","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fw3c%2Fwebappsec-change-password-url","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Fw3c%2Fwebappsec-change-password-url","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fw3c%2Fwebappsec-change-password-url/lists"}