On 10/13/24 2:30 PM, Nick via Dng wrote:
> 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

This is still downloading from mozilla.org.  I am looking for the
equivalent to download the latest stable from thunderbird.net.


Marc