Pull request proposal: automatic certificate renewal

[Paul-Reed]

I assume that if this PR was added to node-RED, it would then open the door for the development that you hinted at in this post;

Node-RED SSL using Letsencrypt & Certbot

Hi Ioan, I have no knowledge about certbot, but I'm about to announce a new LetsEncrypt node for Node-RED. So I have been playing with the acme protocol already, which hopefully can get you a bit started ... When you request a new certificate for a domain (mydomain.com), the guys from Letsencrypt have to be sure that you are the owner of domain.com. Otherwise everybody could request a certificate, which means it wouldn't be secure anymore ... To make sure you are the owner, they will send…

If so, that would make adding SSL really easy, and be a very welcome addition.

Is there any news on this PR? The discussion around it seems to have gone quiet...