Show HN: I built a simple web server with ACME support

by cozis • 7 months ago

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cozis• 7 months ago

Hello HN!

I originally built this tool to see what happened if one wrote a web server from scratch and made it face the public web (I also nudged some communities to crash it intentionally). It was a fun experience and I used that small server to host my website since then.

Over time, I learned about managing a VPS and the hassle involved with certificate management. I also wanted to host multiple websites on the same server. For these reasons I worked for about a year to add virtual hosts and automatic HTTPS by implementing the ACME protocol (RFC 8555). The new server is currently hosting https://coz.is

Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41642151

https://www.reddit.com/r/C_Programming/comments/1falo3b/usin...

https://www.reddit.com/r/hacking/comments/1fcc5hd/im_using_m...

Show HN: I built a simple web server with ACME support

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