312148 - Intelligent bookmark handling according to HTTP response codes

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 213467

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

Description

[Raphael Schweikert]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20050930 Firefox/1.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20050930 Firefox/1.4

This is an enhancement request for "intelligent" bookmark handling. The concept
is quite simple really and quite useful also:
1. If the user opens a bookmark to which the server responds with a permanent
redirect response (or possibly also a redirect using meta hhtp-equiv), the user
should be asked if he wants to update his bookmarks accordingly.
2. If the user opens a bookmark to which the server responds with a 410 (or
possibly also 404) error code, the user should be asked if he wants to remove
the bookmark.
I imagine, this would make bookmark handling a lot less of a hassle dealing with
ever-changing URLs these days. I realise that this would also not be very easy
to implement because of the browser having to talk back to the bookmarks component.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Dave Townsend [:mossop] (PTO until Aug 21st)]

Part 1 is bug 213467

Comment 2

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Part 2 is bug 301144

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 213467 ***