301144 - Bookmarks don't respond to 410 Gone

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Daniel Franke]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

When a bookmarked page gives a server response of 410 Gone, the user should be
prompted to delete the bookmark.

RFC 2616 states:
410 Gone
The requested resource is no longer available at the server and no
forwarding address is known. This condition is expected to be
considered permanent. Clients with link editing capabilities SHOULD
delete references to the Request-URI after user approval.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Bookmark the URL I have supplied, which is gone.
2. Select the bookmark.

Actual Results:  
Nothing special.

Expected Results:  
Browser should recognize the 410 and either prompt the user to remove the
bookmark, or do it automatically.

Although this is a feature request, I am marking the severity as minor since it
does violate the RFC recommendation.

Comment 1

[Adam Guthrie]

Confirming. Couldn't find a dupe, and it sounds like a decent request to me.

Comment 2

[zug_treno]

See also Suite bug 8648.

Comment 4

[Jo Hermans]

see also bug 299031 (for favicons)

Comment 5

[:Felipe Gomes (needinfo for replies!)]

The bookmark (and its metadata: tags, description, etc) can still have valuable information so asking the user a potential data-destructing question shouldn't be done. If the user understands what the 410 Gone means they can delete the bookmark by themselves; if they don't they won't be able to properly answer the question proposed either.