[syslinux] COM32 and network access

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Mon May 5 09:42:27 PDT 2008


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




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