Flash Player DLA no longer works

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Flash Player DLA no longer works

aysiu opened this issue 8 years ago · 5 comments

aysiu commented 8 years ago

Adobe switched it up so you have to log in before you can download.

Answer 1 · 2016-10-13T23:22:38.000Z

Thanks for this. Away for a few days, so I'll see what I can do next week.

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Answer 2 · 2016-10-14T15:00:19.000Z

Thanks, @jazzace. Not sure if there's a good fix. Do we want people storing their Adobe ID credentials (I guess if they set up a dummy account that only fetches Flash)?

Answer 3 · 2016-10-19T21:27:02.000Z

I was not able to recreate your problem. When we entered into a distribution license agreement (DLA) with Adobe, they provided us with a unique URL that included our authorization code (similar in form to an Adobe serial number). I put that URL in my override and it worked fine. Tested the URL without AutoPkg today and it worked as expected. I understand that you must authenticate with an Adobe ID to apply for a DLA, but I have not been required to login to download the Flash installer once my agreement has been approved.

Answer 4 · 2016-10-20T00:29:36.000Z

That's how it worked for me before, but suddenly my unique URL stopped working. I requested a new authorization, and I got another URL... and the URL worked fine, but only after I authenticated. By agreement, we can't share the URLs we get from Adobe. Anyone else experiencing this? I think someone else on Slack was having this problem as well... Edit: I think you're Slack, right?
https://macadmins.slack.com/archives/autopkg/p1476393416002205

Answer 5 · 2016-11-15T18:36:55.000Z

My licensing agreement just expired, so I have now experienced the same problem that you did. My conclusion is that sometime in October 2016, Adobe changed their URL scheme. If you have a personally-unique URI, it (and the AdobeFlashPlayerDLACurrent recipes) will work until the DLA expires. Once you renew, you are given a new, non-unique URI that requires authentication with the Adobe ID you used for the agreement.

So I have documented this in the AdobeFlashPlayerDLACurrent and will leave them up for the next year. I will look at coming up with a new set of recipes to deal with Adobe's new rules, but with Flash in a death spiral, I'm not going to spend much time on this, especially since we have a working workaround in the main autopkg recipes repo.