So recently GlobalSign, DigiCert, and Comodo worked together with Nginx to get OCSP stapling supoported in Nginx 1.3.7, unfortunately architectural restrictions made it impractical to make it so that pre-fetching the OCSP response on server start-up so instead the first connection to the server primes the cache that is used for later connections. This is a fine compromise but … Continue reading Priming the OCSP cache in Nginx