266723 - Some scheduled bookmarks are not being checked; No way to see if bookmarks are corrupt

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 207814

(SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[S.A. Birl]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910

There are 2 issues going on here:

1) After I experienced some corruption to my bookmarks.html file, I discovered
   that some of my scheduled bookmarks are no longer being "watched".
   Although the code *seems* correct, but the LAST_PING field is not being
   updated in about 75% of my scheduled bookmarks.

2) Because of issue #1, I realized that there's no method to see if the
   bookmarks.html is corrupt.  I wrote a PERL script located at 
   http://concept.temple.edu/sysadmin/installers/    that *should* help.

   This script picked up on serveral descrepancies in the bookmarks file:
        The addition of the PING_CONTENT_LEN field.
            Some of my older bookmarks did not have this field.  Once I 
            started adding bogus   PING_CONTENT_LEN="0"   data, some of the
            schedules started happening again.  But not all.
        The addition of *any* PING field.
            A very recent (3 days ago) bookmark doesnt have any PING fields.

   So Im requesting that there be an option (or something) that would bring all
   bookmarks up to date in the way of HTML coding.

I know that some of these websites are changing quite frenquently, and yet
the scheduled bookmark does not update it's LAST_PING field.

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:

Actual Results:  
A bookmark like this works:

<DT><A HREF="http://www.insecure.org/nmap/nmap_download.html"
ADD_DATE="1063385877" LAST_VISIT="1098192819" LAST_MODIFIED="1079631612"
ICON="http://images.insecure.org/images/tiny-eyeicon.png"
SCHEDULE="0123456|12-16|60|icon,open" LAST_PING="1098904482"
PING_LAST_MODIFIED="Thu, 21 Oct 2004 04:52:38 GMT" LAST_CHARSET="ISO-8859-1"
PING_CONTENT_LEN="28321" PING_STATUS="new" ID="rdf:#$aly5Z">Nmap -- Free Stealth
Port Scanner For Network Exploration &amp; Security Audits. Runs on
Linux/Windows/UNIX/Solaris/FreeBSD/OpenBSD</A>



A bookmark like this doesnt:

<DT><A HREF="http://www.bb4.com/" ADD_DATE="982871858" LAST_VISIT="1090713615"
LAST_MODIFIED="1079971028" SCHEDULE="06|19-20|60|icon,open"
LAST_PING="1093132816" PING_LAST_MODIFIED="Mon, 31 May 2004 17:26:19 GMT"
LAST_CHARSET="ISO-8859-1" PING_CONTENT_LEN="6038" ID="rdf:#$ily5Z">Big Brother
System and Network Monitor</A>

Expected Results:  
I expected all of my bookmarks to be checked at their scheduled times.

Comment 1

[S.A. Birl]

I now realize that this bug is a duplicate.
(Why Bugzilla didnt give me the results I was looking for when I searched ...
human error)

I'll mark this as duplicate, once I figure out which bug to switch it to.

Comment 2

[S.A. Birl]

It seems that just about every bug I looked at (to mark this a dup of) is closed
without an actual stable fix.  *sigh*

Bug 207814 is closest bug to match my problem, though bug 216319 is close too.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 207814 ***