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)
committerJulian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org>
Sun, 2 Nov 2025 11:08:11 +0000 (12:08 +0100)
commitfb1857bfdccc25806ca2a96c9bd3a4ad083a2781
treea7efa47e37d3bf29d7c95e51f17ef4a3e0d32aee
parentb6ddfa3b2c81fe12f224b1d1746b6a33734b7afe
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