Some headers can modify the meaning of the response code. For
example, a WWW-Authenticate header can change the interpretation of a
401 Unauthorized response from "Access denied" to "Please
authenticate".
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
http_step() allocates a potentially large block of storage (since the
URI can be arbitrarily long), and can be invoked as part of an already
deep call stack via xfer_window_changed().
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
As RFC 2616 10.3.4 explains, a 303 status is the proper HTTP 1.1
behavior for what most HTTP 1.0 clients did with code 302.
Signed-off-by: Jason Lunz <lunz@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Separate out the core HTTP functionality (which is shared by both HTTP
and HTTPS) from the provision of the "http://" URI opener. This
allows for builds that support only "https://" URIs.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Michael Brown
Kevin Tran
Jason Lunz