blast from the past! resurrects
https://github.com/certbot/certbot/pull/9803 with all of @bmw's changes.
i figured instead of force-pushing a basically brand new branch and
obliterating the old review, i'd just start from a clean slate
fixes#8272
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Co-authored-by: Brad Warren <bmw@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Brad Warren <bmw@eff.org>
