Re: [Etherboot-developers] Patch for TFTP-multicast released

[<ke...@us...>]

>>Given that more people are used to urls than parsing the weird dhcp
>>history it might be worth the little bit of extra code to parse an ip
>>address if that is present.
>
>I think not for now, not for DHCP triggered downloads at least. A
>bootloader is not a web browser.  The three /// allows the scheme to be
>expanded in that direction if it is deemed worthwhile later. Other
>solutions are possible, such as a proxy; I've been tempted to write a
>TFTP to HTTPS proxy.

Just to expand a bit on that point, if the syntax is made general to
include an IP then user expectations will increase correspondingly, then
we are expected to automatically cater for hosts on other subnets
(without a relay), routing, all that. Let's not go there for now.