Comment by pzmarzly
2 days ago
> The range of things that can run an http server is much bigger than tftp
Don't go too crazy though, these UEFI HTTP clients are not well behaved. For example, last time I checked, EDK required the URL to end with ".efi", instead of checking Content-Type header.
Thank you for sharing this tidbit. It looks like this may have been fixed? https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/blob/master/NetworkPkg/Htt...
I have an HTTP netboot flow that worked on older AMI Aptio firmwares, but fails on anything newer to even fetch the bootfile after a successful DHCP cycle, so I heartily agree with your sentiment that these are not necessarily well adjusted clients!