Here is the list of connections that Microsoft Edge requires to work properly

Martin Brinkmann
Feb 10, 2020
Internet, Microsoft Edge
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Microsoft's new Edge web browser tries to connect to various resources automatically when it is installed and/or running on a system. It is not uncommon for a browser to do so; a very common automated task is to check for program updates that may be downloaded and installed then on the local system.

Browsers tend to do so automatically to push new program versions to user systems. While that is desired most of the time, some users may prefer more control over the process.

Sometimes, it may be useful to know about the specific URLs that a browser tries to connect to. For one, it may be required if Edge is run in a network that sits behind a firewall and other security protections. The requests would simply be blocked automatically if security is configured to allow only access to certain resources on the Internet.

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Some users may want to know about these URLs to block them right away. A user could block update requests to update Microsoft Edge manually when it is appropriate, or disable the experimentation and configuration service to avoid configuration or functionality changes made by Microsoft.

Administrators who don't want Edge to connect to the Internet automatically could block all of these URLs in a firewall or security application.

Here is the master list of connections that Microsoft Edge may make or require to function properly:

  • Run update checks
    • https://msedge.api.cdp.microsoft.com
  • HTTP download locations for Microsoft Edge
    • http://msedge.f.tlu.dl.delivery.mp.microsoft.com
    • http://msedge.f.dl.delivery.mp.microsoft.com
    • http://msedge.b.tlu.dl.delivery.mp.microsoft.com
    • http://msedge.b.dl.delivery.mp.microsoft.com
  • HTTPS download locations for Microsoft Edge
    • https://msedge.sf.tlu.dl.delivery.mp.microsoft.com
    • https://msedge.sf.dl.delivery.mp.microsoft.com
    • https://msedge.sb.tlu.dl.delivery.mp.microsoft.com
    • https://msedge.sb.dl.delivery.mp.microsoft.com
  • HTTP download locations for Microsoft Edge extensions
    • http://msedgeextensions.f.tlu.dl.delivery.mp.microsoft.com
    • http://msedgeextensions.f.dl.delivery.mp.microsoft.com
    • http://msedgeextensions.b.tlu.dl.delivery.mp.microsoft.com
    • http://msedgeextensions.b.dl.delivery.mp.microsoft.com
  • HTTPS download locations for Microsoft Edge extensions
    • https://msedgeextensions.sf.tlu.dl.delivery.mp.microsoft.com
    • https://msedgeextensions.sf.dl.delivery.mp.microsoft.com
    • https://msedgeextensions.sb.tlu.dl.delivery.mp.microsoft.com
    • https://msedgeextensions.sb.dl.delivery.mp.microsoft.com
  • Experimentation and configuration service
    • https://ecs.skype.com
  • Provide data for browser features such as tracking protection, certification recovation list, spellcheck dictionaries and more
    • http://edge.microsoft.com/
    • https://edge.microsoft.com/
  • Download delivery optimization
    • Client to server: *.do.dsp.mp.microsoft.com (HTTP Port 80, HTTPS Port 443)
    • Client to client: TCP port 7680 should be open for inbound traffic

Now You: have you tried the new Edge? What is your take on the browser?

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Comments

  1. ilev said on August 4, 2012 at 7:53 pm
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    Doesn’t Windows 8 know that www. or http:// are passe ?

    1. Martin Brinkmann said on August 4, 2012 at 7:57 pm
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      Well it is a bit difficulty to distinguish between name.com domains and files for instance.

    2. Leonidas Burton said on September 4, 2023 at 4:51 am
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      I know a service made by google that is similar to Google bookmarks.
      http://www.google.com/saved

  2. VioletMoon said on August 16, 2023 at 5:26 pm
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    @Ashwin–Thankful you delighted my comment; who knows how many “gamers” would have disagreed!

  3. Karl said on August 17, 2023 at 10:36 pm
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    @Martin

    The comments section under this very article (3 comments) is identical to the comments section found under the following article:
    https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/15/netflix-is-testing-game-streaming-on-tvs-and-computers/

    Not sure what the issue is, but have seen this issue under some other articles recently but did not report it back then.

  4. Anonymous said on August 25, 2023 at 11:44 am
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    Omg a badge!!!
    Some tangible reward lmao.

    It sucks that redditors are going to love the fuck out of it too.

  5. Scroogled said on August 25, 2023 at 10:57 pm
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    With the cloud, there is no such thing as unlimited storage or privacy. Stop relying on these tech scums. Purchase your own hardware and develop your own solutions.

    1. lollmaoeven said on August 27, 2023 at 6:24 am
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      This is a certified reddit cringe moment. Hilarious how the article’s author tries to dress it up like it’s anything more than a png for doing the reddit corporation’s moderation work for free (or for bribes from companies and political groups)

  6. El Duderino said on August 25, 2023 at 11:14 pm
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    Almost al unlmited services have a real limit.

    And this comment is written on the dropbox article from August 25, 2023.

  7. John G. said on August 26, 2023 at 1:29 am
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    First comment > @ilev said on August 4, 2012 at 7:53 pm

    For the God’s sake, fix the comments soon please! :[

  8. Kalmly said on August 26, 2023 at 4:42 pm
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    Yes. Please. Fix the comments.

  9. Kim Schmidt said on September 3, 2023 at 3:42 pm
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    With Google Chrome, it’s only been 1,500 for some time now.

    Anyone who wants to force me in such a way into buying something that I can get elsewhere for free will certainly never see a single dime from my side. I don’t even know how stupid their marketing department is to impose these limits on users instead of offering a valuable product to the paying faction. But they don’t. Even if you pay, you get something that is also available for free elsewhere.

    The algorithm has also become less and less savvy in terms of e.g. English/German translations. It used to be that the bot could sort of sense what you were trying to say and put it into different colloquialisms, which was even fun because it was like, “I know what you’re trying to say here, how about…” Now it’s in parts too stupid to translate the simplest sentences correctly, and the suggestions it makes are at times as moronic as those made by Google Translations.

    If this is a deep-learning AI that learns from users’ translations and the phrases they choose most often – which, by the way, is a valuable, moneys worthwhile contribution of every free user to this project: They invest their time and texts, thereby providing the necessary data for the AI to do the thing as nicely as they brag about it in the first place – alas, the more unprofessional users discovered the translator, the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, the greater the aggregate of linguistically illiterate users has become, and the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, as it now learns the drivel of every Tom, Dick and Harry out there, which is why I now get their Mickey Mouse language as suggestions: the inane language of people who can barely spell the alphabet, it seems.

    And as a thank you for our time and effort in helping them and their AI learn, they’ve lowered the limit from what was once 5,000 to now 1,500…? A big “fuck off” from here for that! Not a brass farthing from me for this attitude and behaviour, not in a hundred years.

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