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authorGuilhem Moulin <guilhem@fripost.org>2017-06-29 22:47:24 +0200
committerGuilhem Moulin <guilhem@fripost.org>2017-06-29 22:47:24 +0200
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Merge branch 'master' into debian
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of the account key manager to the ACME client: data signatures are
requested by writing the data to be signed to the socket.
- * For certificate issuances, an optional webserver, which is spawned
- by the "master" process when no service is listening on the HTTP
- port. (The only challenge type currently supported is "http-01",
- which requires a webserver to answer challenges.) That webserver
- only processes GET and HEAD requests under the
- "/.well-known/acme-challenge/" URI. By default some iptables(8)
- rules are automatically installed to open the HTTP port, and removed
- afterwards.
+ * For certificate issuances, an optional webserver which is spawned by
+ the "master". (The only challenge type currently supported is
+ "http-01", which requires a webserver to answer challenges.) That
+ webserver only processes GET and HEAD requests under the
+ "/.well-known/acme-challenge/" URI. Moreover temporary iptables(8)
+ rules can be automatically installed to open the HTTP port.
Consult the manuals for more information.