Manual Method: Invalid key authorization: 1 parts

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Hi,

I ran the command for the manual method:
./letsencrypt-auto certonly -a manual -d www.mycustomdomain.com --server https://acme-v01.api.letsencrypt.org/directory --agree-dev-preview

I created the requested file 4fRex1xoxIxymyxGyyxsxYVxzo2Q3soQd_GbEHodLxkiIUCxU_dc_7w that contains the text 4fRex1xoxIxymyxGyyxsxYVxzo2Q3soQd_GbEHodLxkiIUCxU_dc_7w

Then

curl -v http://www.mycustomdomain.com/.well-known/acme-challenge/4fRex1xoxIxymyxGyyxsxYVxzo2Q3soQd_GbEHodLxkiIUCxU_dc_7w

* About to connect() to www.mycustomdomain.com port 80 (#0)
*   Trying 23.21.97.86... connected
> GET /.well-known/acme-challenge/4fRex1xoxIxymyxGyyxsxYVxzo2Q3soQd_GbEHodLxkiIUCxU_dc_7w HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.23.1 (x86_64-pc-win32) libcurl/7.23.1
> Host: www.mycustomdomain.com
> Accept: */*
>
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Server: Cowboy
< Connection: keep-alive
< X-Powered-By: Express
< Access-Control-Expose-Headers: Location
< Accept-Ranges: bytes
< Cache-Control: public, max-age=0
< Last-Modified: Wed, 02 Dec 2015 19:02:03 GMT
< Etag: W/"2b-1516412a7f8"
< Content-Type: application/octet-stream
< Content-Length: 43
< Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2015 19:13:17 GMT
< Via: 1.1 vegur
<

And this is what I get from the client:

Failed authorization procedure. www.mycustomdomain.com (http-01): urn:acme:error:unauthorized :: The client lacks sufficient authorization :: Error parsing key authorization file: Invalid key authorization: 1 parts

IMPORTANT NOTES:
 - The following 'urn:acme:error:unauthorized' errors were reported by
   the server:

   Domains: www.mycustomdomain.com
   Error: The client lacks sufficient authorization
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Hello @sydney,

I don’t know if was a typo but the name of the challenge file and the content should not be the same, the content of the challenge file is a bit longer.

By the way, I can’t see the content of the file on the curl output, did you cut it when posted?. Another thing to check, the Content-Type provided by your cowboy server is application/octet-stream but should be text/plain. Review that you are creating the challenge file in the right way and second, be sure that your server uses text/plain Content-Type to server the challenge file.

Cheers,
sahsanu

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