Support for HTTP-01 Challenge over Port 443 with Self-Signed Certificate (for Port 80-Blocked Environments)

carylewis · July 16, 2025, 8:57pm

I still don't see how using https is any less secure than http - the web server is responsible for using the right server {} block based on SNI - what am I missing?

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Support for HTTP-01 Challenge over Port 443 with Self-Signed Certificate (for Port 80-Blocked Environments)

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