1496980 - The download URL for thunderbird-latest points to an old version

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1481198

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Paul Sparks]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:62.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/62.0

Steps to reproduce:

Used an update script which downloads Thunderbird from the following URL. I also tried manually from Firefox
https://download.mozilla.org/?product=thunderbird-latest&os=linux64&lang=en-US

I also tried the following curl command to view the redirected URL:
curl -I -Ls -o /dev/null -w '%{url_effective}' 'https://download.mozilla.org/?product=thunderbird-latest&os=linux64&lang=en-US'




Actual results:

For the script and manual download, the resulting downloaded file was thunderbird-60.0.tar.bz2

The curl command returned:
https://download-installer.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/thunderbird/releases/60.0/linux-x86_64/en-US/thunderbird-60.0.tar.bz2



Expected results:

I expected to download thunderbird-60.2.1.tar.bz2

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

we discussed this in irc - it's not for sancus

Comment 2

[Andrei Hajdukewycz [:sancus]]

We should decide whether supporting external update scripts is worth it or not, but this is a dupe of the other bug. We do not use these bouncer aliases internally.