Re: [Acme] Content-Type and file extensions for HTTP01 challenges

"Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com> Wed, 18 November 2015 16:00 UTC

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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
To: Bryan Livingston <bryanlivingston@gmail.com>, Russ Housley <housley@vigilsec.com>
Thread-Topic: [Acme] Content-Type and file extensions for HTTP01 challenges
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Subject: Re: [Acme] Content-Type and file extensions for HTTP01 challenges
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I am inclined to say that if the URL is arbitrary, why is it wrong to use something that will commonly be trivial to set up?  In other words, not as chair, I’m in favor of .txt
                /r$