Unable to Download Bootdisk for Specific host

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Problem:
We are not able to download the host based full image to provision the server.
Below are foreman version installed in my foreman server.

i have tried using API to download but i got below error.

ERF42-1542 [Foreman::Exception]: Unable to download boot file with HTTP return code 400

But in hammer command im not getting subcommand options --host in CLI. Please let me know if i have missed to enable any plugin or any configuration.

Package List

tfm-rubygem-hammer_cli_foreman_tasks-0.0.13-1.fm1_22.el7.noarch
tfm-rubygem-hammer_cli_foreman_docker-0.0.4-4.el7.noarch
tfm-rubygem-hammer_cli_foreman_bootdisk-0.3.0-1.el7.noarch
tfm-rubygem-hammer_cli_foreman-0.19.6-1.el7.noarch
tfm-rubygem-foreman-tasks-core-0.3.3-1.fm1_24.el7.noarch
tfm-rubygem-foreman-tasks-0.17.5-1.fm1_24.el7.noarch
tfm-rubygem-foreman_docker-5.0.0-2.fm1_22.el7.noarch
tfm-rubygem-foreman_bootdisk-16.0.0-1.fm1_24.el7.noarch
rubygem-foreman_maintain-0.5.1-1.el7.noarch
foreman-selinux-1.24.2-1.el7.noarch
foreman-release-1.24.2-1.el7.noarch
foreman-proxy-1.24.2-1.el7.noarch
foreman-postgresql-1.24.2-1.el7.noarch
foreman-installer-katello-1.24.2-1.el7.noarch
foreman-installer-1.24.2-1.el7.noarch
foreman-debug-1.24.2-1.el7.noarch
foreman-cli-1.24.2-1.el7.noarch
foreman-1.24.2-1.el7.noarch
foreman-proxy-1.24.2-1.el7.noarch

Expected outcome:
Subcommand --host should be enabled to download the host image.
Please let me know if i have follow any type instruction.
Foreman and Proxy versions:

1.24.2

foreman-1.24.2-1.el7.noarch
foreman-proxy-1.24.2-1.el7.noarch

Foreman and Proxy plugin versions:
1.24.2

foreman-1.24.2-1.el7.noarch
foreman-proxy-1.24.2-1.el7.noarch

Distribution and version:

CentOS 7

Other relevant data:

OUTPUT

Usage:
hammer bootdisk host [OPTIONS]

Options:
–file PATH File or device to write image to
–force Force writing to existing destination (device etc.)
–sudo Use sudo to write to device
-h, --help Print help

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Helo and welcome, you need to investigate production.log and paste the error from there.

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I seeing the below errors in production.log.

2020-05-27T16:13:31 [W|app|8dfea81c] Action failed
2020-05-27T16:13:31 [I|app|8dfea81c] Rendering common/500.html.erb within layouts/application
2020-05-27T16:13:31 [I|app|8dfea81c] Rendered common/500.html.erb within layouts/application (2.6ms)
2020-05-27T16:13:31 [I|app|8dfea81c] Rendered layouts/_application_content.html.erb (0.9ms)
2020-05-27T16:13:31 [I|app|8dfea81c] Rendering layouts/base.html.erb
2020-05-27T16:13:31 [I|app|8dfea81c] Rendered layouts/base.html.erb (2.6ms)
2020-05-27T16:13:31 [I|app|8dfea81c] Completed 500 Internal Server Error in 341ms (Views: 10.5ms | ActiveRecord: 81.2ms)

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Please let me know if you are looking for any specific details from the server. Above message was generated when i was trying to download the image.

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Can you enable debug and pastebin more info? Please format it properly.

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Can you please guide me how to enable debug in foreman to troubleshoot. As Im new to the community can share formatting guide

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https://theforeman.org/manuals/2.0/index.html#7.2Debugging

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Markdown is used here so you can use Basic Syntax | Markdown Guide though I’d strongly recommend the fenced style since you don’t need to indent. This makes it much easier to read.

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I encounter the same error. I used tcpdump to capture the http request and this is the error message from the remote repo web server:
…mv…HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
Server: nginx/1.22.0
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2022 09:37:30 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 255
Connection: close

400 The plain HTTP request was sent to HTTPS port

400 Bad Request

The plain HTTP request was sent to HTTPS port
nginx/1.22.0

[myuser@foreman1 ~]$ sudo foreman-rake errors:fetch_log request_id=9d1eb70a
2022-08-26T09:24:33 [I|app|9d1eb70a] Started GET “/bootdisk/disks/full_hosts/scctermv01.info.austrocontrol.at” for 172.31.248.68 at 2022-08-26 09:24:33 +0000
2022-08-26T09:24:33 [I|app|9d1eb70a] Processing by ForemanBootdisk::DisksController#full_host as HTML
2022-08-26T09:24:33 [I|app|9d1eb70a] Parameters: {“id”=>“scctermv01.info.austrocontrol.at”}
2022-08-26T09:24:34 [I|for|9d1eb70a] Fetching https://mirror.karneval.cz/pub/linux/almalinux/9/BaseOS/x86_64/kickstart/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz
2022-08-26T09:24:34 [W|app|9d1eb70a] ERF42-4039 [Foreman::Exception]: Unable to download boot file https://mirror.karneval.cz/pub/linux/almalinux/9/BaseOS/x86_64/kickstart/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz, HTTP return code 400
2022-08-26T09:24:34 [I|app|9d1eb70a] Backtrace for ‘ERF42-4039 [Foreman::Exception]: Unable to download boot file https://mirror.karneval.cz/pub/linux/almalinux/9/BaseOS/x86_64/kickstart/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz, HTTP return code 400’ error (Foreman::Exception): ERF42-4039 [Foreman::Exception]: Unable to download boot file https://mirror.karneval.cz/pub/linux/almalinux/9/BaseOS/x86_64/kickstart/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz, HTTP return code 400
9d1eb70a | /opt/theforeman/tfm/root/usr/share/gems/gems/foreman_bootdisk-17.1.0/app/services/foreman_bootdisk/iso_generator.rb:237:in `block (3 levels) in fetch’

Workaround:
use http:// instead of https:// in the Url of the “Installation Media” associated to the OS used by the host.

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