On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 03:32:51PM +0200, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> > Convenience. And given that I only noticed yesterday that the boot
> > fails on HTTP redirects, of somewhat restricted value.
> >
> > Is that an official policy decision, or just a restriction of the
> > implementation?
>
> Hm, I'm unsure; the following seems to imply that HttpBootDxe intends to
> handle redirects:
>
> if (HttpBootIsHttpRedirectStatusCode
> (HttpMessage->Data.Response->StatusCode)) {
> //
> // Server indicates the resource has been redirected to a different
> URL
> // according to the section 6.4 of RFC7231 and the RFC 7538.
> // Display the redirect information on the screen.
> //
> HttpHeader = HttpFindHeader (
> HttpMessage->HeaderCount,
> HttpMessage->Headers,
> HTTP_HEADER_LOCATION
> );
> if (HttpHeader != NULL) {
> Print (L"\n HTTP ERROR: Resource Redirected.\n New Location:
> %a\n", HttpHeader->FieldValue);
> }
>
> Can you perhaps capture a packet trace and discuss it with Siyuan
> and Jiaxin? Perhaps the server returns a status code that is not
> handled by HttpBootDxe right now.
Oh, it's explicitly printed as a 302 (Found), detected by
HttpBootDxe/HttpBootSupport.c:HttpBootPrintErrorMessage().
See https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg27819.html
But yes, I should have cc:d Siyuan and Jiaxin (and have now done so).
Can you comment?
Regards,
Leif
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