Add a Go web server+Lego tutorial to wiki?

[go-acme]

Add a Go web server+Lego tutorial to wiki?

[xenolf]

So I'm curious. Why did you decide to use exec/command to run the lego binary and not to embed the library directly into your projects?

[xi2]

Hi xenolf. That is a good question. The reasons are that (1) I was exec-ing the scp binary anyway, so it's not like I'd have avoided using exec, and (2) I wanted to capture the nice terminal output of the lego command since it gets sent in the email for inspection. I could of course have replicated that output with my own Fprintf's and acme package API calls, but for the tutorial I was trying to keep the code as short as possible. If you think it's stylistically or pedagogically bad I can change it, naturally, but I think it would be more lines of code. Anyway, thanks for looking it over.

[xenolf]

No, I was just curious 😄

I feel like this would make a great blog post, but for the wiki it's a bit too specific I'm afraid.

[xi2]

With hindsight, I think you are completely right in that it's far too specific to my setup. It will go on my blog :-)