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>
Wed, 11 Jun 2025 15:42:34 +0000 (17:42 +0200)
commitba88835f1101c73a222573cf685cbc7ed53534c4
tree24a93b959f82a70bbbbcaa85216986fac6d5c9f9
parent04ddcc9295a7f5a193d1e389a8dedc5d7fea49ed
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