139030 - bookmark update notification notifies too often

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Brant Gurganus]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:0.9.9+)
Gecko/20020419
BuildID:    2002041903

I almost constantly am notified that the mozilla-evangelism.bclary.com has been
updated, however, it hasn't.  Bob Clary, the site owner, says he hasn't even
touched it.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Bookmark mozilla-evangelism.bclary.com.
2. Configure the bookmark to tell you when the page is updated.
3. Wait.

Actual Results:  You will get a message saying the page has been updated at some
point and it hasn't been.

Expected Results:  Mozilla shouldn't give the alert.

Comment 1

[Brant Gurganus]

This is set to check every hour on Sundays, but it notifies every hour even when
no change has been made.

Comment 2

[Brant Gurganus]

I think I read somewhere that this feature is going to be removed.  Can anybody
confirm this and if so, mark this invalid.

Comment 3

[Jean-Pierre Melkonian]

Mac OS 9.1 Build 2002072908

I suspect mozilla to test also the expiration Date to notify a change.

Every evening (in Paris) i receive notifications for:
http://www.lysator.liu.se/~jonasw/freeware/niftyssh/
and 
http://www.adobe.com/special/webenabled/AWEXFiles.txt
and others
Theese page(or files) are not Changed, but expire every day

If this is true,i  suggest to remove the expiration test, or add a check box
in properties to make this optionnal

Comment 4

[Jean-Pierre Melkonian]

Mac OS 9.1, Build 2002073108

Bookmark notification is crazy tonight, i got four notications for unchanged pages

This time it is not an expiration date problem
For exemple, i got a notification for:
http://www.home.zonnet.nl/robschluter/htmltaglist/download.html

Page info says:
Modified: Tue, Sep 25, 2001 9:58:27 PM
Expires:  Sun, Sep 1, 2002 10:40:02 PM

I received the notification at Aug 1, 2002 20:36 GMT, 22:36 local time.

I have submitted Bug 157963 about problems for the dates shown in page info, but
i hope that mozilla use the same code to compute the dates for notifications and
Page info.

I have also received notifications for:
http://www.home.zonnet.nl/robschluter/htmltaglist/htl.zip
http://developer.netscape.com/docs/manuals/communicator/dynhtml/dynhtml.tar.gz
http://developer.netscape.com/docs/technote/dynhtml/css/reaz_dhtml.zip
http://developer.netscape.com/docs/technote/javascript/eventhandler/r_event.zip

No change...

Comment 5

[Brant Gurganus]

It says at
http://www.mozilla.org/quality/browser/front-end/testplans/browser-bookmarks.html:

Won't Test/At Risk:(seeking community contributions)

    * Changing bookmarks location.
    * Manipulating IE Favorites (soon to be unsupported).
* Bookmarks scheduling and notification(soon to be deprecated).

I take it that deprecated means deleted.  I am marking this invalid for that
reason.  If somebody knows that the feature will be kept, feel free to open it
or let me know if you do not have the permissions.