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

Bryan Livingston <bryanlivingston@gmail.com> Thu, 19 November 2015 17:56 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Acme] Content-Type and file extensions for HTTP01 challenges
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We could have the ACME server look for both a .txt and extensenless answer,
if we'd rather not create an http-02 type at this time.

On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 1:19 PM, Niklas Keller <me@kelunik.com> wrote:

> 2015-11-18 21:05 GMT+01:00 Bryan Livingston <bryanlivingston@gmail.com>:
>
>> I was thinking that the Authorize Challenge token generated by the server
>> could have a .txt appended to it. Would the clients just work in that case,
>> and maybe not need to create a new challenge type?
>>
>
> No, that's not compatible, because the token is base64url encoded, that
> doesn't include dots.
>
> Regards, Niklas
>