Acrobat Reader DC Update

[bitznpcz]

I've used the attached to dowload Abobe Acrobat Reader DC updates, but this time the version numbers for the full release and update are different.

e.g. the full release is AcroRdrDC1801120035_en_US.exe but the update is AcroRdrDCUpd1801120036.msp

Is there a better way to download the updates if this happens again?

Thanks,

Kevin

AcrobatUpdateDC.xml

[shawn]

This is not the first time and won't be the last time. Because of that, this is actually one of those that I dig thru the FTP server to find direct links to. Adobe does a horrible job of making this easy.

Step one is to parse this page for the espoused version of the current release notes (parse for DC/continuous[^()]+?\(([\d\.]+x?)\) ):
https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/release-note/release-notes-acrobat-reader.html

Step two is to use that to pull the folder from here, replacing all the periods with nothing and the the x with \d to perform a regex match as "versionshort":
ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/AcrobatDC/

Step three is to parse for either the msp (update file) or the exe (installer) from here, where the language is one of de_DE, en_US, es_ES, fr_FR or ja_JP, and the msp you want is the one without an underscore ("Acr[^\_\s\r\n\t]+msp") unless you're using a non-standard language, then you need both msp's:
ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/AcrobatDC/{versionshort}/

Download them using this URL pattern:
https://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/mac/AcrobatDC/{versionshort}/{filename}

Here's the rub. The worst part in this entire process is that FTP servers can't be handled directly within Ketarin parsing routines, so I had to setup an HTTP to FTP gateway on one of my servers to return the results as text so this information can be parsed -- and that's why I'm not just sharing an app xml with everyone. The FTP gateway is just a PHP file that converts various input parameters to an FTP request using standard PHP functions. If I were to share this then my server would quickly be abused as an FTP gateway for all sorts of evil, and that's just not going to happen.

Here's the PHP file I'm using for this:

<?php
header("Content-Type: text/plain");

$server = $_GET["s"];
if($server==""){die();}

$port = $_GET["p"];
if($port==""){$port = 21;}
//$port = intval($port);

$dir = $_GET["d"];
if($dir==""){$dir = "/";}

// connect
$ftp = ftp_connect( $server, $port );
if (!$ftp) die('could not connect.');
//echo("cnx ok\n");

// login
$res = ftp_login( $ftp, "anonymous", "" );
if (!$res) die('could not login.');
//echo("login ok\n");

// enter passive mode
$res = ftp_pasv( $ftp, true );
if (!$res) die('could not enable passive mode.');
//echo("pasv ok\n");

// get listing
$res = ftp_chdir( $ftp, $dir ); // change directory
//$res = ftp_nlist($ftp, '-a'); // simple file listing
$res = ftp_rawlist( $ftp, '-a');
if(is_null($res)){
	$res = ftp_rawlist( $ftp, "." );
}

//echo($res);
echo(implode("\r\n", $res));
//print_r($res);
//var_dump($res);

A gated request to the first file would look like this:
https://example.com/myftpgateway.php?s=ftp.adobe.com&d=/pub/adobe/reader/win/AcrobatDC/&p=21

And the versioned request would look like this:
https://example.com/myftpgateway.php?s=ftp.adobe.com&d=/pub/adobe/reader/win/AcrobatDC/{versionshort}/&p=21

The output is simple text (which may look funky in a browser but will parse fine by Ketarin). It would look something like this:

drwxrwxr-x   29 ftp      ftp           750 Feb 12 11:49 .
drwxrwxr-x   16 ftp      ftp           332 Feb 07 07:05 ..
drwxrwxr-x    2 ftp      ftp          2583 Apr 06  2015 1500720033
drwxrwxr-x    2 ftp      ftp           327 Jul 14  2015 1500820082
drwxrwxr-x    2 ftp      ftp           429 Oct 13  2015 1500920069
drwxrwxr-x    2 ftp      ftp           194 Oct 29  2015 1500920077
drwxrwxr-x    2 ftp      ftp           194 Nov 25  2015 1500920079
drwxrwxr-x    2 ftp      ftp           429 Jan 12  2016 1501020056
drwxrwxr-x    2 ftp      ftp           194 Feb 16  2016 1501020059
drwxrwxr-x    2 ftp      ftp           429 Mar 08  2016 1501020060
drwxrwxr-x    2 ftp      ftp           429 May 10  2016 1501620039
drwxrwxr-x    2 ftp      ftp           194 May 19  2016 1501620041
drwxrwxr-x    2 ftp      ftp           194 Jun 02  2016 1501620045
drwxrwxr-x    2 ftp      ftp           327 Jul 12  2016 1501720050
drwxrwxr-x    2 ftp      ftp            92 Aug 02  2016 1501720053
drwxrwxr-x    2 ftp      ftp           327 Oct 11  2016 1502020039
drwxrwxr-x    2 ftp      ftp            92 Nov 03  2016 1502020042
drwxrwxr-x    2 ftp      ftp           327 Jan 10  2017 1502320053
drwxrwxr-x    2 ftp      ftp            92 Jan 19  2017 1502320056
drwxrwxr-x    2 ftp      ftp           327 Feb 21  2017 1502320070
drwxrwxr-x    2 ftp      ftp           327 Apr 11  2017 1700920044
drwxrwxr-x    2 ftp      ftp            92 Jul 11  2017 1700920058
drwxrwxr-x    2 ftp      ftp           327 Aug 08  2017 1701220093
drwxrwxr-x    2 ftp      ftp            92 Aug 11  2017 1701220095
drwxrwxr-x    2 ftp      ftp            92 Aug 29 04:58 1701220098
drwxrwxr-x    2 ftp      ftp           327 Nov 14 05:53 1800920044
drwxrwxr-x    2 ftp      ftp            92 Nov 29 11:23 1800920050
drwxrwxr-x    2 ftp      ftp           327 Feb 12 11:34 1801120036
drwxrwxr-x    2 ftp      ftp           183 Jul 14  2015 misc

That's why you're parsing for "18.011.2003x" and changing it to a regex for "180112003\d".

Good luck!

[floele]

Oh you need a bridge for that? Consider it done in the next version of Ketarin

[bitznpcz]

Many thanks floele for the very detailed reponse - I'll have a look a look into your suggestions.

[floele]

You need to thank @shawn

[shawn]

fantastic, @floele! thank you!

[bitznpcz]

On 2/16/2018 at 5:54 PM, floele said:

You need to thank @shawn

Sorry @shawn ;-) Many thanks for your response!