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Michael Brown
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TLS defines a mechanism for gracefully closing a connection via a closure alert. We currently ignore this alert since it is a warning rather than an error, and warnings are allowed to be ignored. In almost all cases, a higher-level protocol such as HTTP will already give us the information required to know when the connection should be closed. In the very rare case of an HTTPS server that does not send a Content-Length header and does not close the TCP connection, only the closure alert indicates that the whole file has been retrieved. Handle a received closure alert by gracefully closing the connection. Reported-by: Tuomo Tanskanen <tuomo.tanskanen@est.tech> Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
iPXE network bootloader
iPXE is the leading open source network boot firmware. It provides a full PXE implementation enhanced with additional features such as:
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boot from a web server via HTTP or HTTPS,
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boot from an iSCSI, FCoE, or AoE SAN,
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control the boot process with a script,
You can use iPXE to replace the existing PXE ROM on your network card, or you can chainload into iPXE to obtain the features of iPXE without the hassle of reflashing.
iPXE is free, open-source software licensed under the GNU GPL (with some portions under GPL-compatible licences).
You can download the rolling release binaries (built from the latest commit), or use the most recent stable release.
For full documentation, visit the iPXE website.