Florian Obser(flor...@openbsd.org) on 2020.11.03 14:52:55 +0100:
> On Tue, Nov 03, 2020 at 10:37:04AM +0100, Matthias Pressfreund wrote:
> >
> > On 2020-11-03 09:56, Florian Obser wrote:
> > > On Mon, Nov 02, 2020 at 02:35:48PM +0100, Matthias Pressfreund wrote:
> > >> The patch below updates the acme-client(1) manpage by providing a
> > >> closer match for the httpd(8) location block accepting acme challenge
> > >> responses.
> > >
> > > How is this better?
> > >
> > > When the requested file exits in /var/www/acme/ I get a 200 in both cases.
> > > When the file does not exists I get a 404 in both cases.
> > >
> >
> > It is better because I may not want the server to return 404 if the file
> > does not exist. Instead, I may want to let the server fall back to its
> > default behavior as shown in the example below where it would simply drop
> > the connection.
> >
> > server "example.com" {
> > ...
> > block drop
> > location found "/.well-known/acme-challenge/*" { ... }
> > ...
> > }
>
> I don't know, I'm not buying it, this doesn't feel neccesary for acme.
> We wanted to have a minimal example that gets people going with
> acme-client and httpd, now we have more fluff.
>
> But I guess it's just me, so meh.
Its not just you.
I think the example is fine.
