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Rewrite the HTTP core to allow for the addition of arbitrary content encoding mechanisms, such as PeerDist and gzip. The core now exposes http_open() which can be used to create requests with an explicitly selected HTTP method, an optional requested content range, and an optional request body. A simple wrapper provides the preexisting behaviour of creating either a GET request or an application/x-www-form-urlencoded POST request (if the URI includes parameters). The HTTP SAN interface is now implemented using the generic block device translator. Individual blocks are requested using http_open() to create a range request. Server connections are now managed via a connection pool; this allows for multiple requests to the same server (e.g. for SAN blocks) to be completely unaware of each other. Repeated HTTPS connections to the same server can reuse a pooled connection, avoiding the per-connection overhead of establishing a TLS session (which can take several seconds if using a client certificate). Support for HTTP SAN booting and for the Basic and Digest authentication schemes is now optional and can be controlled via the SANBOOT_PROTO_HTTP, HTTP_AUTH_BASIC, and HTTP_AUTH_DIGEST build configuration options in config/general.h. Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
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