[U-Boot] http client?

[Robin Getz]

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?

> We would like to work to integrate or add the necessary http client
> functions to achieve this. If there are no patches obtainable, is anyone
> interested in working on this with us?  

Yes - Although it sounds like your schedule is more immediate than mine...