Independance from Linux (MacOS)

[Akxe]

It would be great if it would not be defendant on Linux, therefor would be usable on Windows too.

[Irrelon]

Do you know what would be required to make that happen, or what is stopping it from working on windows? I wasn't aware it was a problem running on windows.

[Akxe]

I can't run .sh files on windows, there is whole library that does let's encrypt. It is called greenlock

[Irrelon]

@Akxe Ahh! OK. Yes that makes a lot of sense. Honestly I stopped using windows for server functionality about 10 years ago and every now and then I get a gotcha like this when I assume a platform :)

[Akxe]

Sure, most users use Linux as server platform, but for example my home server, or many localhosts playgrounds are on windows.

[Irrelon]

@Akxe agreed. Do you have a suggestion on the best way to handle this? Do you think we should just auto-detect windows and use a different tool to do letsencrypt or should we make it part of the config file? Do you have any preference, suggestions? Also, because I don't use windows, any change that makes this possible will need testing by someone who uses windows :)

[Akxe]

I wouldn't separate codebase into two based on OS. I rather use one of the let's encrypt libraries. The greenlock seemed to me as best bet, but I will sure look into it a bit more once I get home. I can for sure set up a test server on Windows to test my part and you can do the Linux one.

[Akxe]

I think that this one should do exactly what we need, however we should look it it will express version also support httpproxy or not.

[Irrelon]

Doesn't letsencrypt have an official Node.js module?

[Akxe]

No, I don't think so, I thing that most vanilla experience is this: https://git.daplie.com/Daplie/node-greenlock