azureedge.net CDN will cease operations by 15th January 2025

[hugovk]

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/

• Critical: .NET install domains and URLs are changing dotnet/core#9671

Searching the top 8k Python projects on PyPI, I found some instances of azureedge.net in selenium-4.33.12 at https://pypi.org/project/selenium-base/

./seleniumbase-4.33.12.tar.gz: seleniumbase-4.33.12/seleniumbase/console_scripts/sb_install.py: edgedriver_st = "https://msedgedriver.azureedge.net/LATEST_RELEASE"
./seleniumbase-4.33.12.tar.gz: seleniumbase-4.33.12/seleniumbase/console_scripts/sb_install.py: download_url = "https://msedgedriver.azureedge.net/%s/%s" % (

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.

See also SeleniumHQ/selenium#15024.

[mdmintz]

This affects 2 lines of code: (Related to downloading EdgeDriver for Microsoft Edge automation)

SeleniumBase/seleniumbase/console_scripts/sb_install.py

Line 693 in 11e81b0

edgedriver_st = "https://msedgedriver.azureedge.net/LATEST_RELEASE"

SeleniumBase/seleniumbase/console_scripts/sb_install.py

Line 704 in 11e81b0

download_url = "https://msedgedriver.azureedge.net/%s/%s" % (

So far, https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/webdriver is still using msedgedriver.azureedge.net URLs, so I'm not sure what the updated links are yet. When I do know, I can make the updates quickly.

[mdmintz]

Microsoft is aware of the situation: MicrosoftEdge/EdgeWebDriver#183.
Hopefully they'll update their CDN links soon so that SeleniumBase can use the updated EdgeDriver links.

[mdmintz]

According to MicrosoftEdge/EdgeWebDriver#183 (comment), it looks like the CDN will continue working after the deadline.

If that turns out to be untrue, I'll be ready to update SeleniumBase CDN links after they do. Will close this ticket for now.