On 13-10-2024 23:13, Marc Shapiro via Dng wrote:
> I think the subject pretty much says it all.
>
> For years, I have been using a perl script to download the latest
> firefox and thunderbird .bz2 files from mozilla.org using 'wget'. If
> the file is more recent than my current version, it gets moved to a
> directory for storage.  It then gets untarred and the resulting
> directory gets moved again, to where I want the binary.
>
> Recently, however, the thunderbird binary that I got popped up an
> error and said to get the most recent stable version from
> thunderbird.net.  (Googling showed that a lot of people got hit with
> this.)  I got the file from thunderbird.net.  Fortunately, there were
> no incompatible changes made to my profile.  (The script will be
> backing up the prfofile before it is used again.)
>
> To get the file from mozilla.org, I am using:
>
> system('wget --quiet --show-progress --content-disposition
> "https://download.mozilla.org/?product=thunderbird-latest-ssl&os=linux64&lang=en-US"');
>
>
> But, if thunderbird.net is the preferred location, does anyone know
> the equivalent way to use 'wget' to download the latest stable file
> from there?
>
>
> Marc
>
Apparently they changed the way their download link functions. It still
works when you use:

wget -O thunderbird-latest.tar.bz2
https://download.mozilla.org/?product=thunderbird-latest-ssl\&os=linux64\&lang=en-US