541172 - (patch) add support to plugincheck page to detect Y! BrowserPlus version

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Websites :: plugins.mozilla.org, defect)

Description

[Lloyd Trevor Hilaiel]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6

This branch on github includes the following changes:
* changes to fix the test harness in the plugin detect code (was not maintained)
* changes to allow version extraction code to leverage mime types (contains version information for BrowserPlus and other high profile plugins)
* add specific support for extraction of yahoo browserplus version.

http://github.com/lloyd/Perfidies-of-the-Web

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install browserplus http://browserplus.yahoo.com
2. go to plugin check page https://www.mozilla.com/en-US/plugincheck/

Actual Results:  
BrowserPlus is listed as grey with a "more information" link

Expected Results:  
It should be yellow (needs update) or green (latest version)

The BrowserPlus WSAPI may be used to determine latest available version.  Documented here: 
http://browserplus.org/docs/platform/WSAPI.html

specifically, hit this url for latest available platform version:
http://browserplus.yahoo.com/api/v3/platform/latest/version/win32

Comment 1

[Lloyd Trevor Hilaiel]

Attachment: A patch against 06ab93331536 to add support for BrowserPlus version detection.

note this performs minor restructuring to give version detection logic access to mime type.

Comment 2

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Austin, is this something we want to add?

Comment 3

[Lloyd Trevor Hilaiel]

Austin already pulled, because, he, is, awesome:
http://github.com/ozten/Perfidies-of-the-Web/commit/9872681d1f5c20e4e68069087227bee3bfd7937c

Comment 4

[Austin King [:ozten]]

This is done and in production.