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I was thinking it might be nice to be able to have an HMACed token with an expiry as an option - so e.g. my main http-serving thing could provide one of those to allow the frontend to read for a bit but kick the user off after half an hour or whatever if the token isn't refreshed.

I've no issue with offloading SSL to a different process though, I tend to prefer doing that anyway a lot of the time.

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I understand what you mean but is it for a specific usage of a search engine? I was thinking that this kind of time-restricted tokens could also be managed by the nginx instance, our engine doesn't support that for the time being.

I can make the nginx instance do that.

Was just thinking for "simplest possible deployment" it would be nice to be able to have clients hit the meili instance basically directly to take maximum advantage of the speed.

Note that I'm not saying "this should be priority 1" or anything, I'm already thinking about how to configure nginx to handle the hmac crap if I try meili out :)

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