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just been having a fight with leproxy, a little reverse proxy tool written in go that automatically gets letsencrypt certs - yes, i'm trying to get my NIP-05 running. can't seem to get the thing to serve up a filesystem for me at this point.

so, i thought to myself, hang on, i could write a tiny standalone Go webserver app that literally just gets and caches LE certs for the domain and then delivers the correct JSON, all of this baked in using a single environment variable for security, running on a no-shell user, even the LE cert can stay ephemeral in the runtime memory and not even write it to disk.

so this is my saturday afternoon task, after i figure out why my mood has turned sour.

probably just need to go for a walk lol.

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mleku 2y ago

also, i checked - nobody has done this already. someone made a more complicated thing that handles NIP-57 as well for something: https://github.com/AreaLayer/LNURL but i just wanted something simple.

my VPS is cheap, 3.8 euro a month, and the domain registration for my first year was literally 1 euro, and it's more than adequate bandwidth to run a wireguard VPN tunnel, and using my domain, host my NIP-05 and have a shiny domain name thing. lol.

so, i'll put together a simple go app that just pulls an LE cert, and serves up the proper NIP-05 JSON verification file et voila.

maybe something more will spring to mind as a use for it but for now this isn't a terrible waste of 6 euros now and 4 a month to have a vpn and bulletproof impersonation proofed nostr identity.