Re:Let's Encrypt Stats
by kuschku on Saturday December 05, 2015 @01:11PM
(#10682695)
As clarification: A poll for a new certificate could then be as simple as "sign the CSR with the key, do a POST to their URL with the CSR in the form data, get the results back".
Not necessarily – obviously, many other approaches would work, too – but having to run a webserver to get it approved, and move files around, etc, makes the process a bit bothersome if one wants to automate it without giving the script access to the webserver, or doesn’t want to run one.
EDIT: Obviously, I have to be missing something, right? What’s the error in my concept? I mean, if it was that simple, they’d have already implemented it.
Not necessarily – obviously, many other approaches would work, too – but having to run a webserver to get it approved, and move files around, etc, makes the process a bit bothersome if one wants to automate it without giving the script access to the webserver, or doesn’t want to run one.
EDIT: Obviously, I have to be missing something, right? What’s the error in my concept? I mean, if it was that simple, they’d have already implemented it.