[ipxe-devel] Backslash in chain scripts converted to %5c - escaping issue

[Oliver Rath]

Hi Alex,

Am 30.05.2012 12:42, schrieb Alex Davies:
> Hi All,
>
> If I enter iPXE shell and enter "chain \boot\x86\pxelinux.0",
> everything works - it pulls this file via TFTP from next-server.
>
> If I put the same string in a iPXE script and chain that via HTTP,
> there is an escaping issue (the slashes are converted to %5C). I have
> tried double slashing and adding quotes to no avail (these escape
> characters are simply converted too).
>
> Is there another way?
>

You can take i.e. the builtin tftp-server of dnsmasq (if you are using
i.e. linux as server). It converts all "\" to "/" in path by default.
Addtionally, in dnsmasq 2.61 exists the new --tftp-lowercase option,
which converts als chars to lowercase.

Hth,
Oliver