@mkupper said in latest version download url broken:
At one point within the last year or two donho said that Notepad++'s getDownloadUrl.php was an internal thing. He had not planned on it being used by others. Unfortunately, I can’t find that commen
here (in the <NeedToBeUpdated> topic already linked), he said,
https://notepad-plus-plus.org/update/getDownloadUrl.php is internal URL for Notepad++ packages doing self auto-updating, but it not supposed for outside usage (from any individual or IT people of enterprise doing it manually). Therefore no support for the internal URL normally.
However, I have no way so far to hide the URL from outside.
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Note that getDownloadUrl.php could change its way to manage the auto-update in the future. Since it’s an internal used URL, there’s no warranty to keep its retro-compatibility.
So the conclusion that I draw: @mforrest and others may use it as-is if they want to take the risk (because he cannot stop them), but they need to understand that the rules used behind-the-scenes are allowed to change at any time, without notice.
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update: further, this post confirms that the behavior of missing version= changed at the same time as Don’s 2023-Sep-21 update to allow either version=X.Y.Z or version=X.YZ – since we know there was a change there, but the versions in the npp-specific wingup repo and in the gup4win repo haven’t changed in 8 years, we also can conclude that the one actually used by Notepad++ is custom, even compared to the notepad-plus-plus/wingup repo version.