[U-Boot] http client?

[Ben Warren <biggerbadderben@gmail.com>]

Robin Getz wrote:
> On Wed 22 Jul 2009 10:04, jeffery palmer pondered:
>   
>> We are looking for an http client now as well. Our major issue revolves 
>>     
> around the download times for tftp.
>   
>>  
>> Can Volkmar Uhlig kindly provide the patches?
>>  
>> Our units automically update themselves inside of uboot giving us the most
>> control over our firmware. The issue is that it takes 20 minutes via a DSL
>> line in Africa to update our units. An http test showed that the same
>> firmware downloads in 30 seconds. We have also added things like the blksize
>> parameter to the uboot tftp client to get it down to 20 minutes, our
>> original download times were ~50 minutes.     
>>     
>
> Hmm -- I'm assuming that is  http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1783.html ?
>
> Do you have a patch to send - or that I can clean up and submit?
>
>   
Requesting a bigger blocksize is already implemented and should work if 
the server supports it.  It's been a while since I used this, but it was 
added along with support for multicast TFTP, probably about a year ago.

regards,
Ben