On Thursday 09 May 2013 15:06:35 Ján ONDREJ (SAL) wrote: > I have an idea for displaying better error messages. Can ipxe try to > convert error code to error message on ipxe homepage? If http network is > available, can it try it? There are lots of errors in ipxe, which are > confusing.
iPXE already gives you a URL (such as http://ipxe.org/022ae23c) which takes you to a page giving you a full description, a link to the precise line of code which generated that specific error, and a place where anyone can add notes describing causes and solutions for that specific problem. Personally, I think that's about as clear as it could possibly get. I don't think that attempting to use HTTP to retrieve error details would be a good idea: - it won't work on networks that are not directly connected to the public Internet - it omits most of the useful functionality of the existing error page (i.e. the "possible sources" links, any links to relevant documentation, and the "additional notes" editable text section) - it introduces a possible failure into a failure path (i.e. we may fail to retrieve the error message). This is almost always a bad idea; code that executes on a failure path should never itself be able to fail. Michael _______________________________________________ ipxe-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ipxe.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/ipxe-devel
