685721 - can not download an addon for a different operating system than the one I am currently connected with

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Public Pages, defect)

Description

[dekeonus baisenvar]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:6.0.2) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0.2
Build ID: 20110902133214

Steps to reproduce:

tried to download lightning extension for Linux Thunderbird from a windows Firefox 


Actual results:

I can not select a Linux (or Mac) versions of addons


Expected results:

upon navigating to the versions information page (the page that lists previous versions) I should also be able to select a different operating system. -this is extremely frustrating the web site is trying to outsmart me and fails miserably. I've browsed to a page that has given me a warning about using older versions, if I'm prepared to accept that warning and continue, why can I not download the extension for a different OS?

Comment 1

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Confirmed. I've just been trying to do this, and I can't find a way to do it anywhere.

Even trying to download https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/downloads/file/127598/lightning-1.0b5-tb+sm-linux.xpi with wget on my mac doesn't work.

Comment 2

[Wil Clouser [:clouserw]]

What is the output of wget?

Comment 3

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

$ wget --no-check-certificate https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/downloads/file/127598/lightning-1.0b5-tb+sm-linux.xpi
--2011-09-19 10:59:54--  https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/downloads/file/127598/lightning-1.0b5-tb+sm-linux.xpi
Resolving addons.mozilla.org (addons.mozilla.org)... 63.245.217.112
Connecting to addons.mozilla.org (addons.mozilla.org)|63.245.217.112|:443... connected.
WARNING: cannot verify addons.mozilla.org's certificate, issued by `/C=US/O=VeriSign, Inc./OU=VeriSign Trust Network/OU=Terms of use at https://www.verisign.com/rpa (c)06/CN=VeriSign Class 3 Extended Validation SSL CA':
  Unable to locally verify the issuer's authority.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 FOUND
Location: https://addons.mozilla.org/_files/_attachments/2313/lightning-1.0b5-tb+sm-mac.xpi [following]
--2011-09-19 10:59:56--  https://addons.mozilla.org/_files/_attachments/2313/lightning-1.0b5-tb+sm-mac.xpi
Reusing existing connection to addons.mozilla.org:443.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently
Location: https://static.addons.mozilla.net/_files/_attachments/2313/lightning-1.0b5-tb+sm-mac.xpi [following]
--2011-09-19 10:59:56--  https://static.addons.mozilla.net/_files/_attachments/2313/lightning-1.0b5-tb+sm-mac.xpi
Resolving static.addons.mozilla.net (static.addons.mozilla.net)... 63.245.217.115
Connecting to static.addons.mozilla.net (static.addons.mozilla.net)|63.245.217.115|:443... connected.
WARNING: cannot verify static.addons.mozilla.net's certificate, issued by `/C=US/O=GeoTrust, Inc./CN=GeoTrust SSL CA':
  Unable to locally verify the issuer's authority.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 3193408 (3.0M) [application/x-xpinstall]
Saving to: `lightning-1.0b5-tb+sm-mac.xpi.2'

Comment 4

[dekeonus baisenvar]

what is the MS Windows URL ... I'm using GNU/Linux ATM, and won't be able to reboot for a few days

@Mark, you used the pathname for the MacOSX version of the file the GNU/Linux URL is

https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/downloads/file/127600/lightning-1.0b5-tb+sm-linux.xpi

what I want to see is the ability to select which OS I want to download for on the version history page: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/lightning/versions/ at the moment I can only see download links for the OS I'm connected with (i.e. I'm using GNU/Linux and so the version history page only shows GNU/Linux links but not MacOSX or MS Windows links).

here's what wget gives for GNU/Linux download


user@host ~ $ wget https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/downloads/file/127600/lightning-1.0b5-tb+sm-linux.xpi
--2011-09-19 20:07:58--  https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/downloads/file/127600/lightning-1.0b5-tb+sm-linux.xpi
Resolving addons.mozilla.org (addons.mozilla.org)... 63.245.217.112
Connecting to addons.mozilla.org (addons.mozilla.org)|63.245.217.112|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 FOUND
Location: https://addons.mozilla.org/_files/_attachments/2313/lightning-1.0b5-tb+sm-linux.xpi [following]
--2011-09-19 20:07:59--  https://addons.mozilla.org/_files/_attachments/2313/lightning-1.0b5-tb+sm-linux.xpi
Reusing existing connection to addons.mozilla.org:443.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently
Location: https://static.addons.mozilla.net/_files/_attachments/2313/lightning-1.0b5-tb+sm-linux.xpi [following]
--2011-09-19 20:07:59--  https://static.addons.mozilla.net/_files/_attachments/2313/lightning-1.0b5-tb+sm-linux.xpi
Resolving static.addons.mozilla.net (static.addons.mozilla.net)... 63.245.217.115
Connecting to static.addons.mozilla.net (static.addons.mozilla.net)|63.245.217.115|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 3090363 (2.9M) [application/x-xpinstall]
Saving to: `lightning-1.0b5-tb+sm-linux.xpi'

100%[==============================================================================>] 3,090,363    481K/s   in 7.5s

2011-09-19 20:08:10 (402 KB/s) - `lightning-1.0b5-tb+sm-linux.xpi' saved [3090363/3090363]



so using the link Mark has above for MacOSX, wget produces this output ...


user@host ~ $ wget https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/downloads/file/127598/lightning-1.0b5-tb+sm-mac.xpi
--2011-09-19 20:13:41--  https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/downloads/file/127598/lightning-1.0b5-tb+sm-mac.xpi
Resolving addons.mozilla.org (addons.mozilla.org)... 63.245.217.112
Connecting to addons.mozilla.org (addons.mozilla.org)|63.245.217.112|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 FOUND
Location: https://addons.mozilla.org/_files/_attachments/2313/lightning-1.0b5-tb+sm-mac.xpi [following]
--2011-09-19 20:13:44--  https://addons.mozilla.org/_files/_attachments/2313/lightning-1.0b5-tb+sm-mac.xpi
Reusing existing connection to addons.mozilla.org:443.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently
Location: https://static.addons.mozilla.net/_files/_attachments/2313/lightning-1.0b5-tb+sm-mac.xpi [following]
--2011-09-19 20:13:45--  https://static.addons.mozilla.net/_files/_attachments/2313/lightning-1.0b5-tb+sm-mac.xpi
Resolving static.addons.mozilla.net (static.addons.mozilla.net)... 63.245.217.115
Connecting to static.addons.mozilla.net (static.addons.mozilla.net)|63.245.217.115|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 3193408 (3.0M) [application/x-xpinstall]
Saving to: `lightning-1.0b5-tb+sm-mac.xpi'

100%[==============================================================================>] 3,193,408    486K/s   in 7.4s

2011-09-19 20:13:53 (422 KB/s) - `lightning-1.0b5-tb+sm-mac.xpi' saved [3193408/3193408]


Not a problem to download once you know the link URL. How do you get the link URL for a different OS than the one you are using?

I have just copied and pasted the MacOSX URL into the address bar of my GNU/Linux Firefox browser and consequently downloaded the MacOSX lightning-1.0b5-tb+sm-mac.xpi

What I want is the version histories page to expose URLS for other OSes other than the one I'm connected with

Comment 6

[Wil Clouser [:clouserw]]

Thanks for filing this.  Due to resource constraints we are closing bugs which we won't realistically be able to fix.  If you have a patch that applies to this bug please reopen.

For more info see http://micropipes.com/blog/2014/09/24/the-great-add-on-bug-triage/

Comment 7

[[e-mail]]

Can someone reopen this bug or do we have to re-file it?