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 <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.