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nickblah

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    Comment #33424176

    National Renewable Energy Lab | Full-stack, back-end, or front-end | Golden, CO or Remote | Full-Time | https://www.nrel.gov Hi! My team at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory…

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    Comment #12132354

    Yes, by default the module requires that you explicitly whitelist the domains you want to allow certificate registration for. So while you could allow any domain to be registered, …

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    Comment #12130525

    I haven't actually looked into DVSNI in too much detail before, so that could definitely be the case. I'll have to investigate a bit more (or any pull requests are always welcome).…

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    Comment #12130407

    Author here. I hadn't really considered it, but it should be possible. Since we're handling this with nginx and Lua, it made it pretty trivial to handle the simple HTTP challenge (…

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    Comment #12130335

    Yes, as long as you're using a shared storage adapter (like Redis), then for the most part, duplicate registration or renewal requests should be handled. The approach to locking we…

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    Comment #12129559

    I've updated the requirements in the README. Thanks for pointing that out!

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    Comment #12129324

    Author here. Our current approach is perhaps a bit different, since we're not actually parsing the nginx config file, so we don't have knowledge of the domains at startup. Instead,…

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    Comment #12129260

    Author here.. If I'm understanding you correctly, I believe that's how things are already working. The very first time a client hits a new domain, the SSL handshake initiates the c…

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    Comment #11249905

    If you can use OpenResty (nginx+Lua), then that's exactly the approach I've taken for a plugin I've been developing recently (SNI, on-demand, and caching): https://github.com/GUI/l…

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    Comment #11151800

    If you're open to using OpenResty (basically nginx with some additional plugins and Lua integration), I've coincidentally been working on a plugin to make all of this completely au…