Re: [Acme] Remove the hyphen from the acceptable character set for _acme-challenge TXT records.

[Matt Holt <[e-mail]>]

I believe this kind of request should go to the app within which the copying is done, not the ACME spec. Ultimately, the vision of ACME is to automate certificate management and to do away with any need for manual copy and paste, so in my opinion changing the spec to bend to a manual workflow seems counter-productive.Matt ---- On Wed, 25 Nov 2020 14:19:36 -0700  [e-mail]  wrote ----Hello everyone,    I have a bit of a feature request for you all. It's actually to remove the hyphen from the TXT records to make it easier to copy and paste into a DNS server record. Here's my scenario. I ran the following command on my server (Ubuntu 20.04) that as you can see has cerbot on it and a large number of domains to cover.certbot certonly --manual --preferred-challenges=dns --email [e-mail] --server https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/directory --agree-tos -d mimocad.io -d *.mimocad.io -d stonybrookems.io -d *.stonybrookems.io -d stonybrookems.com -d *.stonybrookems.com -d stonybrookems.net -d *.stonybrookems.net -d stonybrookems.org -d *.stonybrookems.org -d wlvac.com -d *.wlvac.com -d wlvac.net -d *.wlvac.net -d wlvac.org -d *.wlvac.org -d wlvacems.com -d *.wlvacems.com -d wlvacems.net -d *.wlvacems.net -d wlvacems.org -d *.wlvacems.org -d mimosdr.com -d *.mimosdr.com -d mimosdr.net -d *.mimosdr.net -d mimosdr.org -d *.mimosdr.orgWhile running that command I would get an output like the following...- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -Please deploy a DNS TXT record under the name_acme-challenge.mimocad.io with the following value:6-K6v7VjtVpGhJk4d6Zx8qxsg6JFUZbGnnr-bDpKpScBefore continuing, verify the record is deployed.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -Press Enter to ContinueNormal and expected behavior, yes. My issue is with the hyphen character. From my client machine macOS 11.0.1 when I'm copying DNS records with a double click of the string it stops at spaces appropriately but it stops at hyphens also. In essence, the expected operation of capturing the whole string inside of the select via double click does not work. This behavior is certainly produced in my environment and I would think in others as well. Try it yourself and see what happens! My request is that we simply discourage or disallow the use of the hyphen in the _acme-challenge TXT records as it offers poor usability for the accurate copy of these long complex strings from the console output into the DNS server.Thank you for your time,Respectfully.--Mark Tomlin, CEO.MimoCAD Inc.
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