How to get a free SSL certificate in 4min (on Windows)

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That's neat. Since the underlying web site is contacting Let's Encrypt in order to obtain the certificate from Let's Encrypt, maybe you could increase the automation, speed, and reliability by removing the web site middleman? All of the code for the site is publicly available.

https://github.com/diafygi/gethttpsforfree

(I realize it's not super-simple to just do a port because the site's code is comparatively complex Javascript, so you couldn't just paste it into your code as a library.)

Thanks for the kind words :)

I had thought about integrating the whole thing into the app but I wanted to keep it nice and simple (it is only a few hours of work actually).

Also it kind of felt wrong to deprive the gethttpsforfree.com of their traffic as I think their tool is really nice and deserves attention :)

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