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I asked for a feature on GitHub (fetching SHA-2 fingerprint of client certificates, as opposed to SHA-1) and it was handled in one day. That was the feature that pulled me away from nginx (which still only provides SHA-1 via $ssl_client_fingerprint btw.)

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Oh hi! That was me [1]. I'm a community contributor, but I'm equally impressed by the speed patches get merged on the mailing list.

[1] https://github.com/haproxy/haproxy/issues/123#issuecomment-5...

Sounds like par for the course.

I compiled it from source on our edge servers for a long time (as opposed to packaged), simply so I could apply these real time patches as needed.

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