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Re: HTTP with other ports
From: |
Andrei Borzenkov |
Subject: |
Re: HTTP with other ports |
Date: |
Thu, 20 Nov 2014 06:36:33 +0300 |
В Wed, 19 Nov 2014 13:23:05 -0800
Alan Perry <address@hidden> пишет:
> On 11/19/14, 10:22 AM, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
> > В Wed, 19 Nov 2014 09:27:00 -0800
> > Alan Perry <address@hidden> пишет:
> >
> >> On 11/19/14, 9:09 AM, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
> >>> В Wed, 19 Nov 2014 08:54:24 -0800
> >>> Alan Perry <address@hidden> пишет:
> >>>
> >>>> Has anyone come up with a general way to change the port number in the
> >>>> http module? Right now it is hard coded to be 80, but it is very common
> >>>> to do HTTP over another port number.
> >>>>
> >>>> I was thinking about extending the device name syntax for network devices
> >>> Does protocol,server:port conflict with anything? (http,server:1234)/foo
> >> I separated the server from the port with a comma
> > Do you have implementation? Then send a patch for review.
>
> It is more like prototype code and I need to clean it up.
>
> >
> >> because that is how
> >> the protocol is separated from server. I don't think either syntax
> >> conflicts with anything else,
> > Actually ':' does conflict with IPv6.
> >
> >> but I haven't been working with enough
> >> different parts of GRUB2 to really know.
> >>
> >> In my previous note, I mentioned a command for setting the default
> >> server, but I was really talking about the net_default_server env
> >> variable. Thinking about it, an alternate default port doesn't make
> >> sense because you really need to know its protocol as well. Maybe a
> >> default protocol or protocol/port env variable that includes both allows
> >> the alternate port for the protocol to be specified?
> >>
> > Does not
> >
> > set root=protocol,server,[?port]
> >
> > do exactly that?
>
> Yes, it can be done that way. But I was wondering if there needs to be
> an protocol/port variant of net_default_server. Or do I not understand
> the intended use of net_default_server?
>
Initially grub did not support (proto,server) syntax for net devices so
default_server was the only way to change server. Today it is mostly to
record result of PXE auto configuration. Set support is there for
legacy usage, but I do not see any need to extend it.
> alan
>
> >
> >>>> and/or adding a 'default port' (with a command to set it) to go with
> >>> default server. I did an implementation that works for my needs but
> >>> don't think it is a good general purpose implementation.
> >>>> Has anyone else done work here or have ideas for using alternate port
> >>>> numbers with HTTP?
> >>>>
> >>>> alan
> >>>>
> >>>>
>
>
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