What would the server return if "only-return-existing" is true and the
account doesn't exist?

On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 2:40 PM, Richard Barnes <[email protected]> wrote:

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> On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 1:34 AM, Hugo Landau <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> >    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.
>> >    [1]https://github.com/ietf-wg-acme/acme/pull/296
>> I don't think this should be called recovery. It's too reminiscent of
>> the old removed account recovery mechanisms and will be confusing.
>>
>> How about "existing": true?
>>
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> Good idea.  To be extra clear, I think I'm going to with
> "only-return-existing".
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