smartacme/readme.hints.md

• this repo is dependent on letsencrypt and its limits
• to simpify the outside API, smartacme is stateful, meaning it works with a mongodb and a collection called 'SmartacmeCert'.

Certificate Request Behavior

As of v7.4.0, SmartAcme no longer automatically requests wildcard certificates for all domain requests. This change was made to fix issues with HTTP-01 only configurations which cannot validate wildcard domains.

• By default, getCertificateForDomain('example.com') only requests a certificate for example.com
• To request both regular and wildcard certificates, use getCertificateForDomain('example.com', { includeWildcard: true })
• Wildcard certificates require a DNS-01 challenge handler to be configured
• Direct wildcard requests like getCertificateForDomain('*.example.com') only request the wildcard certificate

This change ensures HTTP-01 only configurations work properly while still allowing wildcard certificates when needed and supported.