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/

• https://github.com/dotnet/core/issues/9671

Searching the top 8k Python projects on PyPI, I found some instances of azureedge.net in this project:

./webdriver_manager-4.0.2.tar.gz: webdriver_manager-4.0.2/tests/test_edge_driver.py: "https://msedgedriver.azureedge.net/0.2/edgedriver_win64.zip"
./webdriver_manager-4.0.2.tar.gz: webdriver_manager-4.0.2/webdriver_manager/microsoft.py: url: str = "https://msedgedriver.azureedge.net/",
./webdriver_manager-4.0.2.tar.gz: webdriver_manager-4.0.2/webdriver_manager/microsoft.py: latest_release_url: str = "https://msedgedriver.azureedge.net/LATEST_RELEASE",

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.

[hugovk]

Microsoft issue: https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/EdgeWebDriver/issues/183

[luolingchun]

Temporary solution:

driver = webdriver.Edge(
    service=Service(
        executable_path=EdgeChromiumDriverManager(
            url="https://msedgedriver.microsoft.com/",
            latest_release_url="https://msedgedriver.microsoft.com/LATEST_RELEASE"
        ).install()),
    options=options
)