On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 6:11 PM, Matthew Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Onno Ekker wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I thought I understood how Thunderbird checks for updates, but it > > doesn't work for my extension, so I must do something wrong. I've looked > > over it a couple of times, removed all the signing stuff, rereleased and > > reinstalled original version, waited for mirrors to sync, etc, but it > > still doesn't work. > > > > This is what I have done: > > - forward-0.1-tb.xpi contains an install.rdf with updateurl > > http://downloads.mozdev.org/forward/update.rdf > > - update.rdf contains information for version 0.2, with updatelink > > http://downloads.mozdev.org/forward/forward-0.2-tb.xpi > > - forward-0.2-tb.xpi is the new version > > > > Do I misunderstand the way Thunderbird looks for updates, or doesn one > > of the files contain wrong information? > > If I try to load your RDF in Firefox, I get Page Info showing that the > content type is "application/vnd.mozilla.xul+xml". This won't work I > think; text/xml or text/rdf would be OK; I wouldn't be surprised if > application/rdf+xml worked too now. > > Matthew I think the "application/vnd.mozilla.xul+xml" content-type gets added by Firefox because of the file extension or the way files as served. If I rename it to update.txt, Firefox displays its content type as plain/text. Anyway, your comment sent me on the right track. I rewrite the update.rdf, and changed my local extensions.rdf to point to file:///... and it works with the new content. Seems I or McCoy changed the format to something that wasn't supported. And most of the docs are for Firefox and Thunderbird is lagging? That leaves one question unanswered: Can someone please tell me how I can debug/monitor the update process? That is, on Windows, with a normal Thunderbird build? At the moment it's a blackbox. I can't see what URL's it is checking and what it does with the returned information... Onno
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