# Support for HTTPS only with http-01 challenge?

**URL:** <https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/support-for-https-only-with-http-01-challenge/15134>\
**Category:** Issuance Tech\
**Created:** [April 30, 2016, 10:58am UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/support-for-https-only-with-http-01-challenge/15134 "2016-04-30T10:58:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![tialaramex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@tialaramex](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/tialaramex)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2016, 11:57pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/support-for-https-only-with-http-01-challenge/15134/42 "2016-05-15T23:57:30Z")

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You insist that http-01 is easier, but I’m telling you it isn’t for such a service at all. I understand probably most web servers you’ve encountered defaulted to serving up files from the local filesystem. Put something in a directory named .well-known/acme-challenge/ and Bob is your uncle, right? But our server doesn’t do anything like that. For it to serve up an http-01 challenge answer is no easier than to pass tls-sni-01.

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