Re: [edk2-devel] [Help] in Setting up EFI Shell in QEMU to allow for HTTP Requests

["Brian J. Johnson" <brian.johnson@hpe.com>]

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Are you sure you have the HttpDxe driver in your OVMF build?  Looks like 
you'd need to build with either -D NETWORK_HTTP_ENABLE or -D 
NETWORK_HTTP_BOOT_ENABLE.

See https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/blob/master/OvmfPkg/README for 
details on HTTPS.

*Brian J. Johnson
*Hewlett Packard Enterprise

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*From:* CrossedCarpet [mailto:crossedcarpet@hotmail.com]
*Sent:* Monday, February 13, 2023 at 2:47 AM
*To:* devel@edk2.groups.io <devel@edk2.groups.io>
*Subject:* [edk2-devel] [Help] in Setting up EFI Shell in QEMU to allow 
for HTTP Requests

> Greetings,
> I want to create an UEFI App with internet connection.
>
> Before I start developing the code, I wanted to make sure my setup is 
> working properly so that the app can make http requests.
> To that end, I spent the last days trying to make the `http` command 
> work in the EFI Shell launched inside QEMU.
> I can get the ping command to work properly, but calling:
>
>     http httpbin.org/get
>
> Always returns:
>
>     Unable to open http protocol on `eth0` - Unsupported
>     Unable to download the file `/get` on `eth0` - Unsupported
>
>
> This is my startup.nsh script to configure the interface:
>
>     connect
>     ifconfig -r eth0
>     ifconfig -s eth0 dhcp
>     ifconfig -l eth0
>
>
> These were my different attempts at invoking Qemu properly:
>         -netdev user,id=mynet0,hostfwd=tcp::8080-:80 -device 
> e1000,netdev=mynet0 \
>         -netdev user,id=user.0 -device e1000,netdev=user.0 \
>         -nic user,ipv6=off,model=e1000,mac=52:54:98:76:54:32 \
>
> And following this guide 
> <https://gist.github.com/extremecoders-re/e8fd8a67a515fee0c873dcafc81d811c> I 
> tried to setup a tap, but no dice:
>         -netdev tap,id=mynet0,ifname=tap0,script=no,downscript=no 
> -device e1000,netdev=mynet0,mac=52:55:00:d1:55:01 \
>
> Have you ever achieved this? What was your setup like?
>
> Thank you for your time.
> 



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