36828 - mirror sites for bookmarks

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

Description

[André Langhorst]

It should be possible to assign mirror sites for bookmarks, these should be used
when the first (second,third...) site is not reachable
example: www.php.net (sometimes not reachable, most up to date, official site)
mirror1: www.php3.de (always available, updated after www.php.net)
mirror2: and so on...

OPTION: would be if mozilla could remember that it´s on a mirror site, and if a
download/page is not available (404 for example) mozilla could try to deliver it
from a mirror site

Comment 1

[Blake Ross]

Would the time it takes to implement this feature justify its use?  Don't get 
me wrong, I understand your desire for it, it's just that I've never heard 
anyone ask for this before and can't imagine it being that widespread.

Comment 2

[André Langhorst]

1) the first part shouldn´t be very hairy to implement: ONE additional field 
(most simple solution) or an additional page where one or MORE fields to assign 
mirror sites, on clicking a bookmark should be checked if page loading was 
successful, if not it should be checked if mirror sites are available, if yes 
mozilla should try to load them - DONE
2) perhaps nobody thought at it because nobody was aware that mozilla 
potentially could be used at public terminals with direct internet connection, 
where it´s most important that the desired page is always available, if a page 
suffers under heavy load and isn´t reachable anymore (definable time out period 
would be a nice feature too :) ) mozilla could decide to use another working 
page...

Comment 3

[Blake Ross]

Reassigning 79 Bookmarks bugs to Ben.  I was told this was going to be done 
shortly about two months ago, but it clearly hasn't been.  I think that's long 
enough for all these bugs to remain assigned to nobody.

Feel free to filter all this spam into the trashcan by looking for this string 
in the message body: ducksgoquack

Comment 4

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

Netscape Nav triage team: this is not a Netscape beta stopper.

Comment 5

[Garth Wallace]

*** Bug 86182 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

Paul Chen is now taking Bookmarks bugs. For your convenience, you can filter 
email notifications caused by this by searching for 'ilikegoats'.

Comment 7

[Peter Trudelle]

mass reassign of pchen bookmark bugs to ben

Comment 8

[Vaclav Dvorak]

If this will eventually be done, we could also consider adding an option to
always pick a random URL from the mirror list - to distribute the load evenly.

Comment 9

[André Langhorst]

I guess this never will be done, I retract this one

Comment 10

[Garth Wallace]

This RFE is still valid. Lack of progress in not a good reason to close a bug.

Comment 11

[timeless]

seems like a good enough reason to me, but whatever.

you might as well use a tab group and open the folder as tabs, whichever one
loads first, use. close the rest.

Comment 12

[Ray Booysen]

Reassigning as per Bug #32644

Comment 13

[Phoenix]

Despite this idea looks interesting, I think that's not possible with current sqlite storage for bookmarks, any other opinions?

Comment 14

[Philip Chee]

This is a vary edge case. I agree WONTFIX