103610 - Update Moved Bookmark Feature

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 8648

(SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

Description

[Peter Trudelle]

This is a tracking bug for planning and implementation of new feature work for
Netscape's MachV project. All plan/spec/design documents should be posted on
mozilla.org and discussed in the appropriate newsgroup(s), not here.  New
dependency bugs will be created for any subtasks. Please use this bug only for
discussing the plan itself, or to add links to any pertinent discussion elsewhere.

Proposed requirements:
    *  When a user hits a bookmark and finds that the page has moved, prompt
user with a dialog asking them if they'd like to update their existing bookmark.
    * Choosing yes automatically updates bookmark to the page they are being
redirected to.


Current engineering plan:
 not sure if this is technically feasible or not, unless we assume moved pages
have META refresh. Assuming this is the intent of the feature, 4 days
including notification UI.

Currently assigned to @netscape.com for planning/design.  
Implementation estimate:  4 days

This is still too vague, needs spec/design and review/approval.

Comment 1

[Peter Trudelle]

p3/096 (for planning, implementation can wait til 097), blocks 102472

Comment 2

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

->bookmarks

Comment 3

[Alex Bishop]

"not sure if this is technically feasible or not, unless we assume moved pages
have META refresh"

Of course, we shouldn't assume that all pages with meta refresh are pages that 
have moved. Would it be possible to search for strings such as "This page has 
moved" or "Update your bookmarks" in the page? If both a meta refresh tag and 
an appropriate string are found, we can be pretty confident that the page has 
moved.

The best thing would be if there was a specific meta tag for moved pages. 
Something like:

<meta name="moved" content="http://www.newlocation.com/">

Comment 4

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

Paul Chen is now taking Bookmarks bugs. For your convenience, you can filter 
email notifications caused by this by searching for 'ilikegoats'.

Comment 5

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

Joe Hewitt has volunteered to take this. 

Comment 6

[Alex Bishop]

*** Bug 106320 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Jeremy M. Dolan]

There is a seperate bug for updating bookmarks when the server returns the code
for Permanently moved (and removing them for 404s). There's no other situation
the user should be asked, unless we invent a new <meta> type tag to allow this
to be triggered without server support. I suggest this is duped to 8648.

Comment 8

[Jaime Rodriguez, Jr.]

This targetted for M101. Should we remove it from blocking Bug 102472, since its
current target is outside the dev window for the next release?

Comment 9

[Peter Trudelle]

->future

Comment 10

[André Dahlqvist]

Is this bug different in any way from bug 8648?

Comment 11

[Robert Kaiser]

This bug report is registered in the SeaMonkey product, but has been without a comment since the inception of the SeaMonkey project. This means that it was logged against the old Mozilla suite and we cannot determine that it's still valid for the current SeaMonkey suite. Because of this, we are setting it to an UNCONFIRMED state.

If you can confirm that this report still applies to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it back to the NEW state along with a comment on how you reproduced it on what Build ID, or if it's an enhancement request, why it's still worth implementing and in what way.
If you can confirm that the report doesn't apply to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it to the appropriate RESOLVED state (WORKSFORME, INVALID, WONTFIX, or similar).
If no action happens within the next few months, we move this bug report to an EXPIRED state.

Query tag for this change: mass-UNCONFIRM-20090614

Comment 13

[Philip Chee]

> Is this bug different in any way from bug 8648?
Doesn't look like it. The Firefox bug was also duped to 8648.