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[http] gPXE is a HTTP/1.0 client, not a HTTP/1.1 client 

gPXE is not compliant with the HTTP/1.1 specification (RFC 2616),
since it lacks support for "Transfer-Encoding: chunked".  gPXE is,
however, compliant with the HTTP/1.0 specification (RFC 1945), which
does not require "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" to be supported.

The only HTTP/1.1 feature that gPXE uses is the "Host:" header, but
servers universally accept that one from HTTP/1.0 clients as an
optional extension (it is obligatory for HTTP/1.1).  gPXE does not,
for example, appear to support connection caching.  Advertising as a
HTTP/1.0 client will typically make the server close the connection
immediately upon sending the last data, which is actually beneficial
if we aren't going to keep the connection alive anyway.
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H. Peter Anvin 2008-03-31 05:01:08 -07:00
parent feade5da6e
commit b107637008
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@ -393,7 +393,7 @@ static void http_step ( struct process *process ) {
if ( xfer_window ( &http->socket ) ) {
process_del ( &http->process );
if ( ( rc = xfer_printf ( &http->socket,
"GET %s%s%s HTTP/1.1\r\n"
"GET %s%s%s HTTP/1.0\r\n"
"User-Agent: gPXE/" VERSION "\r\n"
"Host: %s\r\n"
"\r\n",