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Easy HTTPS for your private networks (www.getlocalcert.net)
submitted 1 year ago by NeverBetter to c/programming
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Maybe I'm just getting entrenched in my ways of working, but I fail to see the point of this.

  • If you're after a dev environment - self signed is more than enough as you can just make it trusted.
  • If you need certs at any scale bigger than a couple - rolling out a local CA is a less convoluted solution with fewer bits to break in the long run.
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Based on the title, I was expecting it to be an easy way to automate what you just said. But it's not.

Reading the page and docs, I don't understand the use case for this.

[–] thicket 1 points 1 year ago

Agreed. When I’ve had to make local carts every couple years, I have to spend 3 hours hacking a process together and remembering it all. I was hoping somebody would do something that “just works”, but this still seems like more conceptual burden than I was hoping for