Hi, Leif

We don't have plan to support redirection now, largely because we haven't 
receive any requirement for this feature before.


BestRegards
Fu Siyuan


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Leif Lindholm [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2017 4:38 PM
> To: Fu, Siyuan <[email protected]>
> Cc: Laszlo Ersek <[email protected]>; [email protected];
> [email protected]; Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]>; Wu,
> Jiaxin <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [edk2] [RFC PATCH] ArmPkg: add driver to add distro installer
> HTTP boot options
> 
> 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
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