2016-07-09 18:57 GMT+02:00 Ron <[email protected]>: > On Fri, Jul 08, 2016 at 04:02:36PM -0700, James Kasten wrote: > > I agree that there are a large number of wasted nonce values which > creates > > a burden for the ACME server. This PR would certainly reduce the number > of > > unused nonces. > > > > It seems unfortunate that with this PR, the only guaranteed way to begin > > the ACME process is by posting a failed registration request. > > Yes, I think if we are going to do this we'd want some trivial way to > explicitly request a fresh nonce. > > In the code I have I always cache the most recently received nonce, and > use that if it's available, but if I don't have one that hasn't already > been used, I just fall back to doing a HEAD request on the directory URI > to obtain one. > > It would be nice to have some similarly simple operation to replace that > with.
Same implementation here for kelunik/acme-client. I'm fine with removing it as long as there's still an explicit endpoint to obtain one, e.g. a HEAD to the directory or simply make the directory always return one, as HEAD should be the same as GET without a body. Regards, Niklas
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