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Every client passes information to AUS through query string variables. This section breaks down each of these variables and explains its relation to the update service. | Every client passes information to AUS through query string variables. This section breaks down each of these variables and explains its relation to the update service. | ||
As an example, | As an example, see the app.update.url value taken from Firefox 2.0.0.1 (split up to be readable): | ||
https://aus2.mozilla.org/update | https://aus2.mozilla.org/update | ||
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/update.xml | /update.xml | ||
= Incoming URIs = | |||
A request from an actual Firefox 2.0.0.1 client on an Intel Mac would look like this: | A request from an actual Firefox 2.0.0.1 client on an Intel Mac would look like this: | ||
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/update.xml | /update.xml | ||
= | This URI is processed by Apache, which rewrites it to a PHP script that is responsible for finding update information based on passed client information. It then proceeds down the workflow illustrated above. | ||
== Update Version == | |||
/2 | |||
Update version was created during the infancy of AUS 2 in order to allow for inevitable changes in: | |||
* the order or format of app.update.url pref | |||
* future additional client information that may need to be processed | |||
* other changes to the point-of-entry for Software Update | |||
Initially, as one might expect, this was 0. 0 was never used in production. For reference, 0 URL looked like: | |||
https://aus2.mozilla.org/update | |||
/0 | |||
/%PRODUCT% | |||
/%VERSION% | |||
/%BUILD_ID% | |||
/%BUILD_TARGET% | |||
/%LOCALE% | |||
/update.xml | |||
1 was used in production up until Firefox 2.0. Here is an example: | |||
https://aus2.mozilla.org/update | |||
/1 | |||
/%PRODUCT% | |||
/%VERSION% | |||
/%BUILD_ID% | |||
/%BUILD_TARGET% | |||
/%LOCALE% | |||
/%CHANNEL% | |||
/update.xml | |||
2 is in use for Firefox 2.0 and above until another iteration is required. Here is an example: | |||
https://aus2.mozilla.org/update | |||
/2 | |||
/%PRODUCT% | |||
/%VERSION% | |||
/%BUILD_ID% | |||
/%BUILD_TARGET% | |||
/%LOCALE% | |||
/%CHANNEL% | |||
/%OS_VERSION% | |||
/update.xml | |||
== Product == | == Product == | ||
== Version == | == Version == | ||