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The urls to test throttling should look something like this: | The urls to test throttling should look something like this: | ||
https://aus3.mozilla.org/update/1/Firefox/33.1.1/20141113143407/WINNT_x86-msvc/en-US/release/update.xml | https://aus3.mozilla.org/update/1/Firefox/33.1.1/20141113143407/WINNT_x86-msvc/en-US/release/update.xml | ||
Where 33.1.1 is an older version of Firefox than the one you want to update to (in this case, we are testing updates to 34.0), and the number after it in the url is the buildID of that older version. To find an accurate version and its buildID, check the ftp directory for past release candidates: ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/candidates/. In this example we are looking at: | Where 33.1.1 is an older version of Firefox than the one you want to update to (in this case, we are testing updates to 34.0), and the number after it in the url is the buildID of that older version. | ||
To find an accurate version and its buildID, check the ftp directory for past release candidates: | |||
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/candidates/. | |||
In this example we are looking at: | |||
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/candidates/33.1.1-candidates/build1/ | ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/candidates/33.1.1-candidates/build1/ | ||
and then looking for the build ID in one of the info.txt files: | and then looking for the build ID in one of the info.txt files: | ||
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/candidates/33.1.1-candidates/build1/win32_info.txt | ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/candidates/33.1.1-candidates/build1/win32_info.txt | ||