Tag: HTTP/2

2020
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Software development

Use the ACME DNS-Challenge to get a TLS certificate

In my previous 2 blogs I have shown you how to build a HTTP/2 webserver. In these blogs we have covered self signed TLS certificates as well retrieving a Certificate via Letsencrypt. I mentioned there you will have to expose your server publicly on the internet. However I now figured out there is another way. So please continue reading. Let’s Encrypt is a free, automated, and open certificate authority brought to you by the nonprofit Internet Security Research Group (ISRG). (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Letsencrypt implements the ACME (Automated Certificate Management environment) protocol. In the ACME protocol there are 4 challenge types defined. Let’s go briefly over these challenge types, so we can relate this back to my previous blogs before we are going to use the DNS challenge type.

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Software developmentGolang

Build a Go Webserver on HTTP/2 using Letsencrypt

Pretty often I see developers struggle with setting up a webserver running on https. Now some might argue, why to run a webserver on https during development? The reason for that is simple. If you would like to benefit from HTTP/2 features like server push, utilizing the http.Pusher interface, you will need to run your webserver on HTTP/2. That is the only way how you can very early on in the development process test this. In this blog I’m showing you how to do that in Go using Letsencrypt and a self-signed certificate when working offline. In my previous blog I have already shown you how to use self-signed certificates in Nginx to use HTTP/2 features. I have also written a blog a long time ago on how to get a Letsencrypt certificate for your Azure website.