tftp2httpd

tftp2httpd is a daemon written in Go which acts as a TFTP server and proxies the requests to an HTTP server. This can be used to serve configuration files requested by embedded devices on a dynamic basis, by taking advantage of the huge HTTP ecosystem for serving requests dynamically.

For example, maybe you have a model of IP phone which requests a configuration file from a TFTP server based on its MAC address. With tftp2httpd, you can proxy that request to an HTTP handler which generates an appropriate configuration based on the filename.

1. An embedded device with MAC address 0000.2222.4444 requests configuration file p000022224444.cfg from the TFTP server specified by DHCP.
2. The TFTP server, which is running tftp2httpd, proxies the request to an HTTP server setup to handle the request dynamically.
3. The HTTP server parses the filename to deduce the MAC address and generates an appropriate configuration, which it returns via HTTP.
4. The TFTP server returns the generated configuration to the embedded device via TFTP.

Source code and further instructions available on GitHub.