Make casper capable of fetching filesystem.squashfs through http

[Apachez]

Playing with PXE boot the Ubuntu Live CD works when using NFS.

Downside with NFS is that it isnt firewall friendly (out of the box) and after the boot completes the client still requires access to the NFS share.

A great fix would be if casper becomes capable of fetching filesystem.squashfs through http during boot. This way no NFS is needed and once booted the squashfs is then located in the system RAM so no more network activity is needed (when starting applications in the live CD environment).

The following page have provided a patch for this but it would be great if this patch can be part of the official behaviour of casper:

https://www.turnkeylinux.org/forum/support/20090127/pxe-boot#comment-25776

Related info:

https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=309&t=136596

The patch above is also included with this report.

[Apachez (apachez)]

Added another possible patch (source: https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=309&t=136596).

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

The attachment "casper-http-simple.patch" seems to be a patch. If it isn't, please remove the "patch" flag from the attachment, remove the "patch" tag, and if you are a member of the ~ubuntu-reviewers, unsubscribe the team.

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[Apachez (apachez)]

So I guess there is no maintainer available for Casper to decide on how to implement the fix?