On Friday 15 February 2008, Godmar Back wrote: > It seems to me that there may be a number of projects hosted on > mozdev.org that may face the same issue. Am I misreading the > instructions? Is there really no way to make existing add-ons > compatible so that they can be automatically updated?
Right now the best thing you can do is being using McCoy [1] to sign your update manifests and add the updateHash to your files. This will allow you to serve your update.rdf files from http sites securely and provide automatic updates. Another alternative is to add your XPIs to addons.mozilla.org; these provide https downloads of update.rdf files so they can provide secure, automatic updates as well. At Mozdev.org we're working on providing a way for project owners to host secure updates here. We are currently working on allowing secure installs using InstallTrigger (bug#17302 [2]). Another step would be for Mozdev to autogenerate update.rdf files (bug#18526 [3]), but this is currently not on the roadmap. Mozdev.org would be able to serve this update.rdf file from a secure location which would allow for secure, automatic updates through FireFox 3 as well. If you'd like to see any of our roadmap priorities changed or rearranged, let us know. -Doug [1] http://wiki.mozilla.org/McCoy [2] http://bugzilla.mozdev.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17302 [3] https://www.mozdev.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=18526 -- Douglas E. Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Site Developer Mozdev.org http://www.mozdev.org
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