On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 1:48 AM, Logan Widick <[email protected]>
wrote:

> From the text, if the field isn't present, should the server act like it
> was set to false
>

Correct.


>
> If this new field is false, and an account exists, then what happens to
> the pre-existing account, its orders, its certificates and its
> authorizations?
>

Same as before -- you get a 200 with the existing account.

--Richard


>
> Sincerely,
>
> Logan Widick
>
> On Apr 17, 2017 17:45, "Richard Barnes" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> In reviewing a PR today noting that a client can find the account URI for
>> a key pair using a new-account request with an empty payload [1], Jacob and
>> I thought it might be a little more robust to use an explicit signal.  I've
>> posted a PR that adds a "recovery" field to indicate to the server that it
>> should not create an account if one does not exist already.  Which is a
>> little ironic in a request to an endpoint designed to create an account,
>> but saves us creating a whole new endpoint.
>>
>> https://github.com/ietf-wg-acme/acme/pull/296
>>
>> Please let me know if you have any comments on the approach here.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> --Richard
>>
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