354760 - There is no possibility to have clients poll their updates from a local Server, and no script for that server (Bandwith,Proxy)

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Toolkit :: Application Update, defect)

Description

[Jens Franik]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060909 Firefox/1.5.0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060909 Firefox/1.5.0.7

If several Client from a network look for Updates, they should be able to update from the local (Linux) Server. This saves a lot of traffic.
Bei either there is no script for that server, nor a option in the Clients Settings.
Has anyone thougt about that? This affects probably all Products...

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

Before you embark on this you should know that many corporate setups disable software update altogether, because it requires that users have write access to the application install directory. Instead they push new versions out, sometimes using the 3rd party MSI files that can be found with Google. Linux distros tend to provide their own packages of Firefox to improve integration, so they disable updates too.

For running a local update server, I was sure there was a basic guide for this on a wiki but I can't find it now. The short version is that you can set a preference app.update.url.override, taking the content of app.update.url and changing the server that is queried.

On that server you need to duplicate, or mimic, what AUS does
  http://wiki.mozilla.org/AUS
using HTTPS and PHP. There are all sorts of issues with keeping your data in sync with that at Mozilla.

More info on the nuts and bolts of update is at
  http://wiki.mozilla.org/Software_Update

Alternatively, if you are already using a proxy then you could possibly configure it to aggressively cache the *.mar files that update uses. It's not possible to do it by site because every request will be bounced to one of the mirrors - that may wreck this approach if enough mirrors are hit.

I'm tempted to move this over to Mozilla Developer Center:Documentation Requests.

Comment 2

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

(In reply to comment #1)
> 
> For running a local update server, I was sure there was a basic guide for this
> on a wiki but I can't find it now. 

i think its http://wiki.mozilla.org/Software_Update - http://wiki.mozilla.org/Software_Update:Checking_For_Updates 

Comment 3

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

-> closing as invalid, since we have already the documentation for this. Jens for more information please see the wiki pages mentioned in this bug.