[Mozilla Enterprise] Firefox update downloader and on-premise update server

Fri May 17 11:05:50 UTC 2019

or we use curl in our shell script:

curl -I 
"https://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-esr-latest&os=win&lang=en-US"

   HTTP/1.1 302 Found
   Cache-Control: max-age=60
   Content-Length: 140
   Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
   Date: Fri, 17 May 2019 10:59:28 GMT
   Location: 
https://download-installer.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/firefox/releases/60.6.3esr/win32/en-US/Firefox%20Setup%2060.6.3esr.exe
   Connection: keep-alive

The line with Location: gives the latest version and the download 
location of firefox-esr.

Am 17.05.2019 um 12:48 schrieb Andrew C Aitchison:
> On Fri, 17 May 2019, Vladimír Cihlář wrote:
> 
>> Excuse me, Mike, and how do I know that – for example - esr70 will be 
>> needed? Is this really not a url address to find out what is the 
>> latest version of Firefox ESR?
> 
> Very near the beginning, every page of www.mozilla.org has a line:
> <html class="windows x86 no-js" lang="en" dir="ltr"
>      data-latest-firefox="66.0.5"      data-esr-versions="60.6.3"
>      data-gtm-container-id="GTM-MW3R8V" data-gtm-page-id="Homepage"
>      data-stub-attribution-rate="1.0">
> 
> which gives the latest general release and ESR versions.
> 
> Over the years, I have found these to be very accurate,
> although they can be a few hours ahead of the latest downloadable version
> I guess that this may depend on how fast the content delivery network 
> propagates new binaries.
> 
> 
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