On 13-10-2024 23:55, Marc Shapiro via Dng wrote:
> 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
>
thunderbird.net is still pointing everywhere to mozilla.org. But wget
without -O will name the downloadfile
'index.html?product=thunderbird-latest-ssl&os=linux64&lang=en-US'.
Better yet you could use:

wget --content-disposition
https://download.mozilla.org/?product=thunderbird-latest-ssl&os=linux64&lang=en-US

and it will work like before.