[ipxe-devel] [gPXE] Identifier strings with blank spaces

[Michael Brown]

On Thursday 31 Jan 2013 18:15:23 shedis wrote:
> i have been trying the boot systems using their smbios information. As a
> starting point i used "Network booting by mac address"
> (http://www.etherboot.org/wiki/appnotes/bootbymacaddress) link.
> 
> I have a file: http://10.10.5.10/gpxe/boot.gpxe
> 
> which contains:
> #!gpxe
> chain
> http://10.10.5.10/gpxe/boot.txt?mac=${net0/mac}&manufact=${smbios/1.4.0:st
> ring}&serialno=${smbios/1.7.0:string}&model=${smbios/1.5.0:string}&req=boot
> me
> 
> When processing above chain command, request is sent to the web server with
> proper identifier substitution except for model=${smbios/1.5.0:string}.
> Since model information within smbios contains string with spaces between
> words e.g. "HP ElliteBook 8560p" the url that get fetched looks liks
> xxxxxxx&model=HP&. Also the parameters after "model" like stat=ok gets
> truncated.

First, upgrade to iPXE (http://ipxe.org) - gPXE is no longer maintained.

You can then use the :uristring setting type, e.g.:

  ${smbios/1.4.0:uristring}

This will URI-encode any special characters (including spaces), which should 
solve your problem.

Michael