[BUG] Account registration failing silently in GUI

[benjamin_riggs]

I'm attempting to register with acme-staging-v02 and curl is throwing an error 52, indicating no response from the webserver. Unfortunately, the GUI swallows this error and the "Register acme account key" box changes from the gear to a check-mark. I was only able to discover the error by examining /tmp/acme/_registerkey/acme_issuecert.log. This is on version 0.3_1.

[jimp]

I opened https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/8682 to add a proper check on the AJAX response for this, and just pushed the change in the latest version of the ACME package. An update should show up shortly. It won't solve your other issue (which I can't reproduce) but it will at least hopefully indicate success or failure properly. It did in my testing, but I couldn't induce a server side failure to test a real-world failure, only a locally faked one.