efi/http: Enclose literal IPv6 addresses in square brackets
authorJavier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
Mon, 9 Jan 2023 23:30:42 +0000 (18:30 -0500)
committerFelix Zielcke <fzielcke@z-51.de>
Thu, 3 Jul 2025 16:35:51 +0000 (18:35 +0200)
commitf39467ce630ae8faa6bce2f59259eff895c1c157
tree23f808864ee59bdeff623138e8168519111ed8a9
parent222873b55b6272d2002ded28795da7852d0dd105
efi/http: Enclose literal IPv6 addresses in square brackets

According to RFC 2732 (https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2732.txt), literal IPv6
addresses must be enclosed in square brackets. But GRUB currently does not
do this and is causing HTTP servers to send Bad Request (400) responses.

For example, the following is the HTTP stream when fetching a config file:

HEAD /EFI/BOOT/grub.cfg HTTP/1.1
Host: 2000:dead:beef:a::1
Accept: */*
User-Agent: UefiHttpBoot/1.0

HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2020 14:46:02 GMT
Server: Apache/2.4.41 (Fedora) OpenSSL/1.1.1d
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

and after enclosing the IPv6 address the HTTP request is successful:

HEAD /EFI/BOOT/grub.cfg HTTP/1.1
Host: [2000:dead:beef:a::1]
Accept: */*
User-Agent: UefiHttpBoot/1.0

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2020 14:48:04 GMT
Server: Apache/2.4.41 (Fedora) OpenSSL/1.1.1d
Last-Modified: Thu, 27 Feb 2020 17:45:58 GMT
ETag: "206-59f924b24b1da"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 518

Resolves: rhbz#1732765

Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Robbie Harwood <rharwood@redhat.com>
Gbp-Pq: Topic network
Gbp-Pq: Name efi-http-enclose-literal-ipv6-addresses-in-square-br.patch
grub-core/net/efi/http.c