Re: directly uploading bookmarks from browser

From: Arthur J. O'Dwyer (ajo_at_nospam.andrew.cmu.edu)
Date: 07/28/04 

Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 10:59:30 -0400 (EDT)

On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, marco wrote:
>
> The plan is simple and can explained in one sentence:
> The bookmarklist in my browser is published on the website and
> everytime I make a new bookmark (in my browser) that same bookmark
> instantly should be uploaded and added to my bookmark list on my
> website.

   Do you host your website from the same computer on which you do
your browsing? (I'm pretty sure that's one of those evil things
like putting "." in your path, but I don't know why I should think
that.)
   If so, you might do it with a little daemon-style program that
would just run in the background all the time, looking at your
bookmarks file and updating your existing webpage. The details
obviously depend on (1) your browser, and (2) your programming
environment.

   If I were doing this, I would put a file in the directory where
my webserver looks, containing the lines [WARNING: UNTESTED CODE]

<html><head>
<META http-equiv="refresh"
content="0;URL=/My%20Profile/Application%20Data/Mozilla/Firefox/
Profiles/default.mak/bookmarks.html">
</head><body>Redirecting...</body></html>

   This says: Wait zero seconds, and then redirect the client's browser
to the actual place in my profile where Mozilla Firefox stores my
bookmarks. (You may have to tell the server that it's okay for it
to serve content out of that file; how you do that will depend on what
kind of webserver you use.)

   If your website is hosted on some other system entirely, then you
probably get into networking. And if it's hosted on a commercial
or mass-market site with password protection and everything, then
you have to worry about how your computer program is going to get
through the security to update your site; I think most webhosts make
that pretty hard, though I'd be glad to be proved wrong. :)

HTH,
-Arthur

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