Re: HTTP with other ports

[Alan Perry <aperry@snowmoose.com>]

On 11/19/14, 10:22 AM, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
> В Wed, 19 Nov 2014 09:27:00 -0800
> Alan Perry <aperry@snowmoose.com> пишет:
>
>> On 11/19/14, 9:09 AM, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
>>> В Wed, 19 Nov 2014 08:54:24 -0800
>>> Alan Perry <aperry@snowmoose.com> пишет:
>>>
>>>> Has anyone come up with a general way to change the port number in the http module? Right now it is hard coded to be 80, but it is very common to do HTTP over another port number.
>>>>
>>>> I was thinking about extending the device name syntax for network devices
>>> Does protocol,server:port conflict with anything? (http,server:1234)/foo
>> I separated the server from the port with a comma
> Do you have implementation? Then send a patch for review.

It is more like prototype code and I need to clean it up.

>
>>                                                    because that is how
>> the protocol is separated from server.  I don't think either syntax
>> conflicts with anything else,
> Actually ':' does conflict with IPv6.
>
>>                                but I haven't been working with enough
>> different parts of GRUB2 to really know.
>>
>> In my previous note, I mentioned a command for setting the default
>> server, but I was really talking about the net_default_server env
>> variable. Thinking about it, an alternate default port doesn't make
>> sense because you really need to know its protocol as well.  Maybe a
>> default protocol or protocol/port env variable that includes both allows
>> the alternate port for the protocol to be specified?
>>
> Does not
>
> set root=protocol,server,[?port]
>
> do exactly that?

Yes, it can be done that way.  But I was wondering if there needs to be 
an protocol/port variant of net_default_server.  Or do I not understand 
the intended use of net_default_server?

alan

>
>>>> and/or adding a 'default port' (with a command to set it) to go with
>>> default server. I did an implementation that works for my needs but
>>> don't think it is a good general purpose implementation.
>>>> Has anyone else done work here or have ideas for using alternate port numbers with HTTP?
>>>>
>>>> alan
>>>>
>>>>