Syslinux - May 2008 - COM32 and network access

Hi!

i'm kinda investigating the possibility of using COM32 to manage an
in-house installation method.

For this to work, we need to have network access (HTTP preferred)
from within COM32 itself. That or any kind of query/response type
of network access.

This is an example of what we could use:
GET /somewhere/blah.asp?MACHINE=THIS
and parse the response from the server.

We're completely open to all kinds of technology, as long as it 
fits our goal


thanks,
Luis Correia   
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Luis.F.Correia wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> i'm kinda investigating the possibility of using COM32 to manage an
> in-house installation method.
> 
> For this to work, we need to have network access (HTTP preferred)
> from within COM32 itself. That or any kind of query/response type
> of network access.
> 
> This is an example of what we could use:
> GET /somewhere/blah.asp?MACHINE=THIS
> and parse the response from the server.
> 
> We're completely open to all kinds of technology, as long as it 
> fits our goal
With gpxelinux.0 you can do HTTP access simply by opening a http:// URL; 
it gets turned into a GET request.

	-hpa

Hi! 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: syslinux-bounces at zytor.com 
> [mailto:syslinux-bounces at zytor.com] On Behalf Of H. Peter Anvin
> Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 5:42 PM
> To: For discussion of SYSLINUX and tftp-hpa
> Subject: Re: [syslinux] COM32 and network access
> 
> Luis.F.Correia wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > i'm kinda investigating the possibility of using COM32 to manage
an
> > in-house installation method.
> > 
> > For this to work, we need to have network access (HTTP 
> preferred) from 
> > within COM32 itself. That or any kind of query/response type of 
> > network access.
> > 
> > This is an example of what we could use:
> > GET /somewhere/blah.asp?MACHINE=THIS
> > and parse the response from the server.
> > 
> > We're completely open to all kinds of technology, as long 
> as it fits 
> > our goal
> 
> With gpxelinux.0 you can do HTTP access simply by opening a 
> http:// URL; it gets turned into a GET request.
> 
> 	-hpa
And this is still in development, right?

I got the GIT repo, but my git skills make me unable to switch
to the gpxe- branches :)

But I'm willing to test the gpxe branch, tell me how.

Luis Correia