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Careful posting systemd satire here, there is a high likelihood that your comment becomes the reason this feature gets built and PRed by someone bored enough to also read HN comment section.

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  [Unit]
  Description=Whatever
  
  [Service]
  ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/cantDoHttpSvc -bind 0.0.0.0:1234
  
  [HTTP]
  Domain=https://whatever.net
  Endpoint=127.1:1234

Yeah this could happen one day

You know, Tailscale serve basically does this right now, but if I could skip this step and let systemd expose a local socket via HTTPS, automatically attempting to request a certificate for the hostname, with optional configuration in the socket unit file… I would kinda like that actually

Yeah that sounds quite good now you say it.

I'm sure this will become a dependency of GNOME

You can basically implement this right now already by using a systemd generator. It’s not even a particularly bad idea, kinda want to try doing it to hook it up to nginx or something, would make adding a reverse proxy route as simple as adding a unit file, and you could depend on it from other units.

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