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From: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>
To: "Fu, Siyuan" <siyuan.fu@intel.com>
Cc: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>,
	"edk2-devel@lists.01.org" <edk2-devel@lists.01.org>,
	"daniel.thompson@linaro.org" <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>,
	Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>,
	"Wu, Jiaxin" <jiaxin.wu@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] ArmPkg: add driver to add distro installer HTTP boot options
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2017 09:37:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171025083733.75h5pfgrpopavlp5@bivouac.eciton.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B1FF2E9001CE9041BD10B825821D5BC58B3CE7F4@SHSMSX103.ccr.corp.intel.com>

On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 02:18:38AM +0000, Fu, Siyuan wrote:
> Hi, Leif and Laszlo
> 
> The HTTP restriction is actually not supported now. If server
> replies a HTTP redirect response, the current HTTP boot driver will
> only print new URL address on the screen then abort the HTTP
> boot. It won't attempt to download the image from the new address.

Yes we noticed that :)
The question was if that was an intentional restriction, or just
something that has not been implemented yet.

Currently this is causing issues for example when attempting to
download an image hosted in some sort of CDN.

Best Regards,

Leif


  reply	other threads:[~2017-10-25  8:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-21 13:10 [RFC PATCH] ArmPkg: add driver to add distro installer HTTP boot options Ard Biesheuvel
2017-10-22 14:40 ` Leif Lindholm
2017-10-22 15:16   ` Ard Biesheuvel
2017-10-24 12:10 ` Laszlo Ersek
2017-10-24 12:36   ` Leif Lindholm
2017-10-24 13:32     ` Laszlo Ersek
2017-10-24 14:44       ` Leif Lindholm
2017-10-25  2:18         ` Fu, Siyuan
2017-10-25  8:37           ` Leif Lindholm [this message]
2017-10-25  8:55             ` Fu, Siyuan

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