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List:       fedora-list
Subject:    Re: Certbot error
From:       Tim via users <users () lists ! fedoraproject ! org>
Date:       2023-04-22 22:23:39
Message-ID: d000750a00cb5e7d28f40b9451476784a3ad59aa.camel () yahoo ! com ! au
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On Sat, 2023-04-22 at 14:32 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> As Patrick said, using port 443 would be a circular dependency.  There 
> is no "testing" of the cert, this is for providing the cert.

Ah...  I thought it was for checking and auto-renewing certificates
before expiry (like certwatch).

> At this point, you don't have an SSL certificate, so it wouldn't work.  The 
> requester puts a token in the web server directory and then tells the 
> certificate generating side to verify the token.

Hmm, sounds like a security problem to get data via insecure means, in
the first place.  It escapes me why you'd want to work that way if you
were running it on the same machine as the server.
 
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