[ipxe-devel] https does not work - but only on a single system

Ján ONDREJ (SAL) ondrejj at salstar.sk
Thu May 9 14:06:35 UTC 2013


On Thu, May 09, 2013 at 12:28:14PM +0100, Michael Brown wrote:
> On Thursday 09 May 2013 11:38:01 Sven Dreyer wrote:
> > > Could you try building with DEBUG=x509?
> > 
> > Argh, my bad: DEBUG=x509 revealed that my certificates are "not yet
> > valid". Correct, since the Alix 3c2 does not have a battery and thinks
> > it it January 1, 2000 each time it boots.
> 
> Interesting; that should have produced the error http://ipxe.org/0216e43c 
> (which would have immediately told you the problem), but your output showed 
> http://ipxe.org/0216e63c instead.  Was this a typo, or did it really show as 
> http://ipxe.org/0216e63c?
> 
> If it wasn't a typo, then I'd be interested in the DEBUG=x509 output to work 
> out why the wrong error was being reported.

Hello,

  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.

					SAL



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