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erich37421944
erich37421944
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January 25, 2017
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Problem downloading Flash Player

  • January 25, 2017
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I support over 300 computers that need flash and I have a distribution license to download the installers which work fine if I manually download them. To save time I have a program that logs me in to the distribution site and then finds the latest MSI installers and uses a webclient to automatically download them. This was all working just fine until about a month or 2 ago, now the link that used to work now only downloads the html page and not the MSI. Why do these links no longer point to an ftp? https://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/distyfp/current/win/install_flash_player_24_active_x.msi Is the link the MSI returns that does not download the MSI. Is the link launching another protocol that downloads? Why was this changed? Why is it getting even harder to distribute flash now? Lastly, why do you upgrade your distribution page and constantly change your HTML tags? The flash version name one time will be in an anchor tag then a span tag and is now in an H4 tag.

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    _maria_
    Community Manager
    _maria_Community Manager
    Community Manager
    January 25, 2017

    Hi

    The distribution page workflow requires customers log into the distribution page to download the files.  This verifies that customers have a current, valid, distribution license.  Unfortunately, the new workflow does not support programmatically downloading of the installer files.

    For various reasons, it is not recommended customers use the distribution page to programmatically obtain the Flash Player version.  Several months ago we made available a masterversion.xml file that customers can programmatically query to find out if there is a new version of Flash Player.  The information is listed in the 'Player Versions' section of the Flash Player Administrator Guide (currently page 7).

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    Maria

    erich37421944
    erich37421944Author
    Participant
    January 25, 2017

    So basically the thought process is to make it as complicated as possible for users to get and distribute your free software?

    _maria_
    Community Manager
    _maria_Community Manager
    Community Manager
    January 25, 2017

    No, that is not the thought process at all.

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