[🐛 Bug]: Error when downloading a new version of Edge Web Driver

[JoseHernan26]

Description

The system was working everyday but sin 15 of july, this is what we see on our logs when our system tries to reach a new version of EDGE web driver:
System.err - [AWT-EventQueue-0] WARN io.github.bonigarcia.wdm.versions.VersionDetector - Exception reading https://msedgedriver.azureedge.net/LATEST_RELEASE_138_WINDOWS to get latest version of msedgedriver (msedgedriver.azureedge.net)
System.err - [AWT-EventQueue-0] WARN io.github.bonigarcia.wdm.versions.VersionDetector - Exception reading https://msedgedriver.azureedge.net/LATEST_STABLE to get latest version of msedgedriver (msedgedriver.azureedge.net)
[AWT-EventQueue-0] INFO io.github.bonigarcia.wdm.WebDriverManager - Reading https://msedgedriver.azureedge.net/?restype=container&comp=list to seek msedgedriver
0] System.err - [AWT-EventQueue-0] INFO io.github.bonigarcia.wdm.cache.ResolutionCache - Clearing WebDriverManager resolution cache
System.err - [AWT-EventQueue-0] WARN io.github.bonigarcia.wdm.WebDriverManager - There was an error managing msedgedriver (latest version) (java.net.UnknownHostException: msedgedriver.azureedge.net) ... trying again avoiding reading release from repository
System.err - [AWT-EventQueue-0] INFO io.github.bonigarcia.wdm.WebDriverManager - Reading https://msedgedriver.azureedge.net/?restype=container&comp=list to seek msedgedriver
System.err - [AWT-EventQueue-0] WARN io.github.bonigarcia.wdm.WebDriverManager - There was an error managing msedgedriver (latest version) (java.net.UnknownHostException: msedgedriver.azureedge.net) ... trying again using latest driver stored in cache
[AWT-EventQueue-0] INFO io.github.bonigarcia.wdm.WebDriverManager - Reading https://msedgedriver.azureedge.net/?restype=container&comp=list to seek msedgedriver
System.err - [AWT-EventQueue-0] ERROR io.github.bonigarcia.wdm.WebDriverManager - There was an error managing msedgedriver (latest version) (java.net.UnknownHostException: msedgedriver.azureedge.net)
System.err - io.github.bonigarcia.wdm.config.WebDriverManagerException: java.net.UnknownHostException: msedgedriver.azureedge.net

Please Help!

Reproducible Code

private void config(boolean kioskMode) {

		if (kioskMode) {
			options.addArguments("--kiosk");
		}
		options.setPageLoadStrategy(PageLoadStrategy.NORMAL);
		
		//options.addArguments("-inprivate"); //Habilita el modo privado
		options.setExperimentalOption("excludeSwitches",
				Collections.singletonList("enable-automation"));
		// options.setCapability("disable-infobars", true);
		// options.setCapability("--disable-notifications", true);
		options.addArguments("--remote-allow-origins=*"); // experimental para que funcione en homo

	}

	private void initialize() {
		// Se comenta la linea de abajo, ya que esta invocando al driver que esta en el proyecto
		// cuando en realidad queremos bajar el driver de manera automatica y tener siempre la 
		// ultima version del mismo. 
		//System.setProperty(WEBDRIVER_SYSTEM_PROPERTY, BROWSER_DRIVER_LOCATION);
		System.setProperty(SimpleLogger.DEFAULT_LOG_LEVEL_KEY, "warn");
		WebDriverManager.edgedriver().setup();
		service = EdgeDriverService.createDefaultService();
		cdl = new CountDownLatch(1);
		options = new EdgeOptions();

	}
private void invokeBrowser(String url) {
		// Llamada al garbage collector antes de abrir el navegador. Se intenta evitar el error de outOfMemory
		System.gc();dev.bancogalicia.com.ar/dummy/";
		String urlToOpen = url + requestUrlParameter + "=" + encodedRequest;
		//urlToOpen = "https://www.google.com";  // Aca se puede sobreescribir la url que quieran abrir.
		if (log.isDebugEnabled()) {
			log.debug("URL a abrir por webDriver = " +urlToOpen);
		}
		EdgeDriver edgeDriver = new EdgeDriver(service, options);
		webDriver = edgeDriver;
		
		webDriver.get(urlToOpen); // requestUrlparameter = inputSigal

	}

Debugging Logs

System.err - [AWT-EventQueue-0] WARN io.github.bonigarcia.wdm.versions.VersionDetector - Exception reading https://msedgedriver.azureedge.net/LATEST_RELEASE_138_WINDOWS to get latest version of msedgedriver (msedgedriver.azureedge.net)
System.err - [AWT-EventQueue-0] WARN io.github.bonigarcia.wdm.versions.VersionDetector - Exception reading https://msedgedriver.azureedge.net/LATEST_STABLE to get latest version of msedgedriver (msedgedriver.azureedge.net)
[AWT-EventQueue-0] INFO io.github.bonigarcia.wdm.WebDriverManager - Reading https://msedgedriver.azureedge.net/?restype=container&comp=list to seek msedgedriver
0] System.err - [AWT-EventQueue-0] INFO io.github.bonigarcia.wdm.cache.ResolutionCache - Clearing WebDriverManager resolution cache
System.err - [AWT-EventQueue-0] WARN io.github.bonigarcia.wdm.WebDriverManager - There was an error managing msedgedriver (latest version) (java.net.UnknownHostException: msedgedriver.azureedge.net) ... trying again avoiding reading release from repository
System.err - [AWT-EventQueue-0] INFO io.github.bonigarcia.wdm.WebDriverManager - Reading https://msedgedriver.azureedge.net/?restype=container&comp=list to seek msedgedriver
 System.err - [AWT-EventQueue-0] WARN io.github.bonigarcia.wdm.WebDriverManager - There was an error managing msedgedriver (latest version) (java.net.UnknownHostException: msedgedriver.azureedge.net) ... trying again using latest driver stored in cache
[AWT-EventQueue-0] INFO io.github.bonigarcia.wdm.WebDriverManager - Reading https://msedgedriver.azureedge.net/?restype=container&comp=list to seek msedgedriver
System.err - [AWT-EventQueue-0] ERROR io.github.bonigarcia.wdm.WebDriverManager - There was an error managing msedgedriver (latest version) (java.net.UnknownHostException: msedgedriver.azureedge.net)
 System.err - io.github.bonigarcia.wdm.config.WebDriverManagerException: java.net.UnknownHostException: msedgedriver.azureedge.net

[selenium-ci]

@JoseHernan26, thank you for creating this issue. We will troubleshoot it as soon as we can.

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[github-actions]

⚠️ You reported using Selenium version 1.0, but the latest release is 4.34.

Please verify that this issue still occurs with the latest version. If it no longer applies, you can close this issue or update your comment.

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[eqoc2514]

It seems that Microsoft have killed https://msedgedriver.azureedget.net and it is now https://msedgedriver.microsoft.com.

[eqoc2514]

@JoseHernan26

You can workaround the breaking change by using the following Selenium Manager configuration option:

-driver-mirror-url <DRIVER_MIRROR_URL> | driver-mirror-url = "DRIVER_MIRROR_URL" | SE_DRIVER_MIRROR_URL=DRIVER_MIRROR_URL | Mirror URL for driver repositories

I implemented a fix for .Net by adding the option as an environment variable just before calling new EdgeDriver.

Environment.SetEnvironmentVariable("SE_DRIVER_MIRROR_URL", "https://msedgedriver.microsoft.com");

[NilsHASK]

https://msedgedriver.microsoft.com doesnt seem to provide the direct executable, only zip archives. Using python I passed the url to EdgeChromiumDriverManager, but still got the "Could not reach host. Are you offline?" error. I had to download the driver manually and provide an executable path for it got working.