[ipxe-devel] Confirm Possible mishandling of http port when http auth is used.

[Andrew Stuart]

Using ipxe dated Apr 19th 17:51 (according to filesystem.. I haven't 
figured out how to tell which git revision I am at yet)

I can successfully boot http://my.boot.server:8081/myfile.img,
when I try the authmenus example from etherboot's site the download 
fails, unfortunately I have been unable to capture the output, but as it 
flashes by, it appears :8081 has been stripped from the url.

I setup the same site on port 80 as a temporary trial, and confirmed it 
works as expected, initial handoff is 8081 for boot.php / vesamenu.c32, 
then after it authenticates everything else goes to port 80.

I reverted my setup to be identical to the setup used for authmenus to 
have a working example for anyone else. 
(http://etherboot.org/wiki/appnotes/authmenus)


Also, if someone here has an account on the wiki above, they may wish to 
update the 'vesamenu.c32 current' section to note the suggested fix 
blocks you from loading .[g|i]pxe files since pxelinux.0 has no idea how 
to load them. I would assume one could work around this..

The example also uses "/vesamenu.c32" which adds a second / on the 
request.. I'll see about creating an account when I get a chance and 
update it if nothing else.

-A