{
  "id": "web-bot-auth",
  "name": "Web Bot Auth",
  "category": "protocols",
  "summary": "IETF draft architecture for identifying automated traffic (bots and agents) by cryptographically signing HTTP requests with HTTP Message Signatures.",
  "description": "Cloudflare documents Web Bot Auth as a way to verify bot identity using cryptographic HTTP message signatures.",
  "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-meunier-web-bot-auth-architecture/",
  "docs": "https://developers.cloudflare.com/bots/reference/bot-verification/web-bot-auth/",
  "tags": [
    "identity",
    "http-signatures",
    "bots",
    "ietf-draft",
    "auth"
  ],
  "status": "beta",
  "related": [
    "visa-trusted-agent-protocol"
  ],
  "sources": [
    "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-meunier-web-bot-auth-architecture/",
    "https://developers.cloudflare.com/bots/reference/bot-verification/web-bot-auth/"
  ],
  "added": "2026-10-02",
  "updated": "2026-10-02",
  "last_verified": "2026-10-02",
  "submitted_by": "agentica-curator",
  "longform": [],
  "links": {
    "html": "https://indexagentica.com/entries/web-bot-auth/",
    "markdown": "https://indexagentica.com/entries/web-bot-auth.md",
    "json": "https://indexagentica.com/api/entries/web-bot-auth.json",
    "source": "https://github.com/Drudley/indexagentica/blob/main/content/protocols/web-bot-auth.json"
  }
}