[UPDATE SERVICE] Update with ODFNOTIFYURL

[Regina Henschel <rb...@t-online.de>]

Hi,

If you open an ODF 1.2 document in OOo2.4.3, you get the message, that a 
newer version is available. In German the text is "Dieses Dokument wurde 
mit einer neueren Version..." The message box has a button "Jetzt 
aktualisieren" (means "Update now").
If you click the bottom it tries to connect to
http://odfnotify.services.openoffice.org/OOo2.4.3/notification.jsp?version=ODF1.2
which fails.

I don't know whether OOo2.4.3 is used somewhere out. But the same 
problem will arise with the change to ODF1.3, because for the actual 
parameter
ODFNOTIFYURL 
http://odfnotify.services.openoffice.org/OOo3.0/notification.jsp?version=ODF
the connections fails in the same way.

Kind regards
Regina

Re: [UPDATE SERVICE] Update with ODFNOTIFYURL

[Oliver-Rainer Wittmann <or...@googlemail.com>]

Hi,

On 07.06.2012 17:58, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 07.06.2012 17:45, Regina Henschel wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> If you open an ODF 1.2 document in OOo2.4.3, you get the message, that a newer
>> version is available. In German the text is "Dieses Dokument wurde mit einer
>> neueren Version..." The message box has a button "Jetzt aktualisieren" (means
>> "Update now").
>> If you click the bottom it tries to connect to
>> http://odfnotify.services.openoffice.org/OOo2.4.3/notification.jsp?version=ODF1.2
>> which fails.
>>
>> I don't know whether OOo2.4.3 is used somewhere out. But the same problem will
>> arise with the change to ODF1.3, because for the actual parameter
>> ODFNOTIFYURL
>> http://odfnotify.services.openoffice.org/OOo3.0/notification.jsp?version=ODF
>> the connections fails in the same way.
>>
>
> Thanks for the hint.
>
> I hope I find the time to have a look - may be I will create a "fake" ODF 1.3
> document in order to investigate this functionality.
>
>

I have figured out the following:
(1) The "ODFNotifyURL" is read from the version.ini resp. versionrc file when 
the user confirms the notification dialog with clicking button "Update Now...".
(2) I have installed all OOo versions from OOo 3.0 until OOo 3.4 Beta on my 
Windows 7 machine. None of them contains a "ODFNotifyURL" field in the 
version.ini resp. versionrc file.
(3) In the current code a possible existing "ODFNotifyURL" value will not be 
used, because an additional needed field - the ODF version number of the read 
ODF document - is not set. Looking at the history of the corresponding code it 
looks like that it has not been changed on the OOo 3.x code line.
(4) The "Check for Updates" function is finally triggered, because the 
"ODFNotifyURL" and the additional ODF version number are not set.

My conclusion:
We do not have to take care of the "ODFNotifyURL" for OOo 3.x versions and our 
AOO 3.4 version.
Thus, I am planning to remove the whole stuff around "ODFNotifyURL" from our 
current code base for the next major version.

Best regards, Oliver.

Re: [UPDATE SERVICE] Update with ODFNOTIFYURL

[Oliver-Rainer Wittmann <or...@googlemail.com>]

Hi,

On 07.06.2012 17:45, Regina Henschel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> If you open an ODF 1.2 document in OOo2.4.3, you get the message, that a newer
> version is available. In German the text is "Dieses Dokument wurde mit einer
> neueren Version..." The message box has a button "Jetzt aktualisieren" (means
> "Update now").
> If you click the bottom it tries to connect to
> http://odfnotify.services.openoffice.org/OOo2.4.3/notification.jsp?version=ODF1.2
> which fails.
>
> I don't know whether OOo2.4.3 is used somewhere out. But the same problem will
> arise with the change to ODF1.3, because for the actual parameter
> ODFNOTIFYURL
> http://odfnotify.services.openoffice.org/OOo3.0/notification.jsp?version=ODF
> the connections fails in the same way.
>

Thanks for the hint.

I hope I find the time to have a look - may be I will create a "fake" ODF 1.3 
document in order to investigate this functionality.


Best regards, Oliver.