[🐛 Bug]: selenium-manager.exe fails to fetch Edge driver – CDN moved from azureedge.net to microsoft.com

[nekozgz]

Description

I'm encountering a WebDriverException when using selenium version 4.34.2 with Microsoft Edge on Windows.

selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: Unsuccessful command executed: c:\Users\pariv\source\repos\GitLab\kinton\venv_tgm2_3.13\Lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\common\windows\selenium-manager.exe --browser MicrosoftEdge --language-binding python --output json; code: 65 {'code': 65, 'message': 'error sending request for url (https://msedgedriver.azureedge.net/LATEST_RELEASE_138_WINDOWS)', 'driver_path': '', 'browser_path': ''}

Context:
It appears that the Edge driver CDN has moved from:
https://msedgedriver.azureedge.net/
to:
https://msedgedriver.microsoft.com/

Please confirm if this is a known change and whether a fix is already planned. Thank you!

Reproducible Code

options = EdgeOptions()
options.page_load_strategy = "eager"
webdriver.Edge(service=EdgeService(EdgeChromiumDriverManager().install()), options=options)
return webdriver.Edge(options=options)

[selenium-ci]

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

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[diemol]

I really wish people read closed issues.

Duplicate of #16058

[nvborisenko]

The reality is it is closed but not resolved yet for end users.

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[cgoldberg]

@nekozgz also, your code is installing the driver and launching the browser twice... once with webdriver_manager, and again with Selenium Manager. :/

Since webdriver_manager is unmaintained and not affiliated with Selenium project, you will continue to get this error after the Selenium Manager fix is released (so remove the 3rd line of your code).

[nekozgz]

@nekozgz also, your code is installing the driver and launching the browser twice... once with webdriver_manager, and again with Selenium Manager. :/

Since webdriver_manager is unmaintained and not affiliated with Selenium project, you will continue to get this error after the Selenium Manager fix is released (so remove the 3rd line of your code).

You are right, the 3rd line is as I had it before (I left it uncommented for a test) and I use the last one but with the same error.

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