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It's in progress. Algernon is an open source project where I am the main contributor, and I develop Algernon in my spare time. Pull requests are welcome.

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I'd love to help, but my coding time is already taken building a product.

I pretty much followed the instructions here: https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/crypto/acme/autocert

edit, better here: https://blog.kowalczyk.info/article/Jl3G/https-for-free-in-g...

I didn't believe it could be that simple, but it worked first time and has proven really robust.

It is even easier: https://github.com/mholt/certmagic

Edit: Taken from certmagic docs

Instead of:

// plaintext HTTP, gross

http.ListenAndServe(":80", mux)

Use CertMagic:

// encrypted HTTPS with HTTP->HTTPS redirects - yay!

certmagic.HTTPS([]string{"example.com"}, mux)

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