[🐛 Bug]: azureedge.net CDN will cease operations by 15th January 2025

[hugovk]

What happened?

A company called Edgio have gone bankrupt and the azureedge.net CDN will be going away on 15th January 2025.

Microsoft has a replacement CDN for some endpoints:

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/critical-dotnet-install-links-are-changing/

https://build5nines.com/retirement-of-azureedge-net-dns-edg-io-business-closure-and-what-you-need-to-know/

dotnet/core#9671

Searching the top 8k Python projects on PyPI, I found some instances of azureedge.net in selenium-4.27.1 at https://pypi.org/project/selenium/

It doesn't look like Microsoft have updated the links at, for example, https://developer.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-edge/tools/webdriver/?cs=2282084340&form=MA13LH yet, but here's a heads-up.

How can we reproduce the issue?

Wait until after the 15th and try and download from the CDN.

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What are the browser(s) and version(s) where you see this issue?

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What are the browser driver(s) and version(s) where you see this issue?

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Are you using Selenium Grid?

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[github-actions]

@hugovk, thank you for creating this issue. We will troubleshoot it as soon as we can.

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[mdmintz]

@hugovk Do you know the updated links?
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/webdriver/ is still using msedgedriver.azureedge.net links.

[hugovk]

I don't. I think this is happening very suddenly so MS might not have everything in place yet.

Let's ask @Jeffrey-Luszcz from GitHub's OSPO.

[Delta456]

I don't think he will have any idea of this. We would need to make a tracking issue on the Edge Developer repo.