Mozilla Firefox 62.0.3 Available - bad download link

Usage and Config Patch
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Firefox fixlet 6081426 “Mozilla Firefox 62.0.3 Available” appears to have a bad link (English download). I get a 404 in the browser for it.

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The link should end in Firefox%20Setup%2062.0.3.exe, but instead it ends in Firefox%2520Setup%252062.0.3.exe.

The download is present and the SHA256 on it is correct.

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Believe it or not, that’s actually correct. A few versions back BigFix switched to generating the download URLs in relevance, which had two effects.
Because the download URL is inside a relevance tag, the “%25” code is needed to do the character substitution for a “%” character, so “%2520” ends up evaluating as “%20”. You can’t just copy/paste it into the browser for that reason. And because it’s in a relevance tag, the URL needs to be added to the BES Server’s DownloadWhiteList.txt to allow downloads from that URL.

See https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS6MCG_9.5.0/com.ibm.bigfix.doc/Platform/Config/c_dynamic_download_white_lists.html for details on downloadwhitelist.txt in general. The file takes regular expressions as values, in my file I added
https://ftp\.mozilla\.org/.*

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I’ll try that, thanks.

When I looked, I do have an older Mozilla site in my whitelist, but I guess they changed it recently.