269231 - Live Bookmark with <guid> that's not a permalink fails to load

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 260918

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[John Forrest]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

The link http://www.my-etrust.com/alertservice/pg.aspx?f=vir goes to an XML
formatted page.  When I create my Live Bookmark, it fails to load.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Bookmarks -> Manage Bookmarks...
2. New Live Bookmark...
3. Name Bookmark and paste in
http://www.my-etrust.com/alertservice/pg.aspx?f=vir for feed location
4. Check Live Bookmark for entries

Actual Results:  
Entry always says "Live Bookmark feed failed to load."

Expected Results:  
Should have read the RSS feed

CA actually has 3 feeds of advisories and none of the three work.

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

We probably need to recover from this error, if we can without breaking feeds
that are not incorrect. The feed is in error, but the "spec" text that makes it
so is rather obscure: "isPermaLink is optional, its default value is true".
<guid> == <guid isPermaLink="true">, so we treat
<guid>2004-03-21T00:00:00</guid> as being the (unusable) link for the item.

Possible cases, when both <guid> and <link> are present:

1. <guid isPermaLink="true">: use it as the item link, no matter what.
2. <guid isPermaLink="false">: use <link>.
3. <guid>: if it's a usable link, use it, if not, use <link>.

The problem for 3 comes when we fix bug 262222 - without resolving relative
URLs, we can say that any <guid> which doesn't start with a scheme is unusable,
but if we resolve them, we can't tell whether <guid>foo</guid> means
"example.com/foo" or "I didn't understand the spec." (Though, given enough
users, resolving the guid to
http://www.my-etrust.com/alertservice/2004-03-21T00%3A00%3A00 might work as
evangelism-by-error-log.)

Comment 2

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Bah, I probably need to remember what's already filed, before I start writing
bug-essays.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 260918 ***

Comment 3

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs, filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change