option --dry-run

[Obie38]

Hi,

thanks for all the work with acme.sh. It's really a great tool and it helped us a lot to migrate from cerbot-auto which is deprecated right now. I really would like to know if it would be possible to get a --dry-run option. I mean without the generation of a certificate. The --test option generate a certifcate and it's not exactly what I would like to use. I think that it could be helpfull for a lot of person.

Thanks

[Neilpang]

what does --dry-run exactly do?

[Obie38]

I mean to simulate the creation of certificate (it does not actually create any certificate). The connection to CA is tested by this way It would be nice for debug purpose.

[AvverbioPronome]

what does --dry-run exactly do?

It obtains an actual certificate from the staging endpoint and then discards it, testing the entire validation chain.

[Neilpang]

you can add --test option,

acme.sh --issue -d .......  -w .....     --test

it will obtain the cert from the staging CA.

[AvverbioPronome]

you can add --test option,

It's not the same. It saves the certificate it gets, possibly overwriting a production one. --dry-run gets the certificate and doesn't save it.

[maffe]

Duplicate of #2565?