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 ** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *From:* CrossedCarpet [mailto:crossedcarpet@hotmail.com] *Sent:* Monday, February 13, 2023 at 2:47 AM *To:* 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 >  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. >