> The CA fetches that token over plain HTTPS
The HTTP-01 challenge can only be done on port 80.
https://letsencrypt.org/docs/challenge-types/
The article was clearly written by an LLM. It would make no sense to use https for a challenge like that, indeed.
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The article was clearly written by an LLM. It would make no sense to use https for a challenge like that, indeed.