[PATCH v19 3/4] doc: cmd: wget: add documentation
Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu)
paul.liu at linaro.org
Wed Oct 19 19:32:59 CEST 2022
Add documentation for the wget command.
Signed-off-by: Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) <paul.liu at linaro.org>
Cc: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
---
doc/usage/cmd/wget.rst | 61 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
doc/usage/index.rst | 1 +
2 files changed, 62 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 doc/usage/cmd/wget.rst
diff --git a/doc/usage/cmd/wget.rst b/doc/usage/cmd/wget.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4fcfa03954
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/usage/cmd/wget.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+:
+
+wget command
+============
+
+Synopsis
+--------
+
+::
+ wget address [[hostIPaddr:]path]
+
+Description
+-----------
+
+The wget command is used to download a file from an HTTP server.
+
+wget command will use HTTP over TCP to download files from an HTTP server.
+Currently it can only download image from an HTTP server hosted on port 80.
+
+address
+ memory address for the data downloaded
+
+hostIPaddr
+ IP address of the HTTP server, defaults to the value of environment
+ variable *serverip*
+
+path
+ path of the file to be downloaded.
+
+Example
+-------
+
+In the example the following steps are executed:
+
+* setup client network address
+* download a file from the HTTP server
+
+::
+
+ => setenv autoload no
+ => dhcp
+ BOOTP broadcast 1
+ *** Unhandled DHCP Option in OFFER/ACK: 23
+ *** Unhandled DHCP Option in OFFER/ACK: 23
+ DHCP client bound to address 192.168.1.105 (210 ms)
+ => wget ${loadaddr} 192.168.1.254:/index.html
+ HTTP/1.0 302 Found
+ Packets received 4, Transfer Successful
+
+Configuration
+-------------
+
+The command is only available if CONFIG_CMD_WGET=y.
+
+CONFIG_PROT_TCP_SACK can be turned on for the TCP SACK options. This will
+help increasing the downloading speed.
+
+Return value
+------------
+
+The return value $? is 0 (true) on success and 1 (false) otherwise.
diff --git a/doc/usage/index.rst b/doc/usage/index.rst
index 90221015ee..11f5fcfaff 100644
--- a/doc/usage/index.rst
+++ b/doc/usage/index.rst
@@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ Shell commands
cmd/true
cmd/ums
cmd/wdt
+ cmd/wget
cmd/xxd
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