Blank GMarks

[Reuben]

Hi

I think I remember seeing something about this before, but I just
wanted to double check.

I have some Google Bookmarks that are not available via the general
internet, because they point at local web servers, like http://sugar/SugarSuite/.

I add the Bookmark via the "Add GMarks(Bypass add bookmark window)".

I can see the Bookmark in the side window, and it works.

I then alter the label, using the right-click "Add New Labels..."
option. I go to the label, and can see the Bookmark and it still
works.

Then I select the Refresh option from the GMarks dropdown menu, and
the side scroll refreshes. The Bookmark is still there, however, the
link no longer works. When I look at the properties for the Bookmark,
the URL is about:blank.

Actually, just trying again, and I dont even need to do the new label
thing. Simply adding a bookmark, and then doing a refresh seems to
result in the bookmark "loosing" its URL.

If I go to Manage Online, the URL is there, but it seems to have had
its http:// stripped from the front.

If I add the Bookmark manually via the http://www.google.com/bookmarks/?hl=en
link, a similar thing happens. Is this Google seeking twisted justice
by not sending proper URLs for websites that it cant access?

I'm using GMarks 0.9.9 and FF3.0.1

[John Marshall]

Google strips these urls out of the rss feed GMarks uses to get the bookmarks. There is a workaround to make the url look like a normal url to Google. See this: http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Bookmarks/browse_frm/thread/7fbba161ffc1887d/935a81d23d91cac5?hl=en&lnk=gst&q=localhost#935a81d23d91cac5

[Reuben]

I guess Google hasnt actually ever seen this as a problem.

Using the direct IP doesnt work so well with named virtual hosts.
Will look at using fully qualified domain names, where possible.

On Aug 2, 2:29 am, "John Marshall" <johnm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Google strips these urls out of the rss feed GMarks uses to get the
> bookmarks. There is a workaround to make the url look like a normal url to

> Google. See this:http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Bookmarks/browse_frm/thread/7fb...

[John Marshall]

Google provides the bookmarks in 3 ways.
Method #1 is an xml feed. The problem with this is it doesn't include notes
Method #2 is an rss feed. The problem with this is it only includes http and https links (maybe a few others) and excludes links like you are having problems with.
Method #1 & #2 return 1000 items per request
Method #3 is a json feed from google notebook. The problem with this is it only includes 20 items per request. There is a num parameter in the query, but it ignores that. This means it would take a long time to download the bookmarks.
Method #4 uses the gdata notebook api and the unfiled notebook. The problem with this is it only works with publicly published notebooks. I don't believe that is the cas

There is no good way to get google bookmarks, I wish google could just fix that one problem for each method.
GMarks uses method #2 btw.

[John Marshall]

Oops, I remembered the forth later on and forgot to change that 3 at the top!