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There is lua-resty-auto-ssl [1] providing exactly that. Sure, it is not plain Nginx, but OpenResty.

[1] https://github.com/GUI/lua-resty-auto-ssl

I'm all for adding native ACME support to web servers, but I can understand that they'd rather wait till ACME reaches RFC status (which hopefully won't be long now - the draft is in WG Last-Call).

Once that's done, I'd definitely be disappointed if web servers still decide it's not in scope for their core product.

I don't think it's unreasonable to expect an officially supported optional module, at the very least. It's how they've handled experimental features in the past.

I was just thinking the same thing. I've been using Caddy for about a year now and love it.

Thanks for the reference to Caddy! Looks like a pretty neat project. I'm also bummed by nginx's lack of end-to-end HTTP/2 support.