Talk:Foxmarks: Error: Unknown error 0x19C

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I don't knov for sure when this error appeared. But I saw it for the first time the day after updating to 0.41.

I noticed that firefox failed to get the new bookmarks from another computer and tried a manual synchronization which failed with this message.

I'm using my own webdav server and everything has been working fine until now.

Indeed, in version .41 we added code to prevent a potential overwrite condition, where another client changes the server file that a Foxmarks client was about to modify. Since Foxmarks hasn't incorporated changes from the new file, those changes would be lost if Foxmarks were to proceed; the error causes it abort the synchronization.

If you are running Foxmarks on multiple machines and you get this error, it's a normal (though unlikely) behavior. If you get it constantly, something is wrong, most likely with you webdav server's support of etags. See http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html section 14.24 for details. --Todd 14:46, 10 January 2006 (EST)

The error keeps on coming.

I'm using apache 2.0.54. Having a look through the docs i found the FileETag Directive

The only setting that would allow Foxmarks to work was: FileETag None

I have some difficulty believing that this is the setting I should be using. Doesn't this basically disable the check you perform by always responding with the same value?

To be perfectly honest I'm somewhat sceptical as to this being a problem with apache rather than FoxMarks ;) The one is a very stable mature product, the other in beta and the misbehaving feature was introduced in the latest version...

Seems my scepticism was most likely unfounded. A search through apache bugzilla found this: PUT/If-match (etag) handling seems to be broken

Thanks for taking the time to track this down, and thanks also for enhancing the wiki with your findings.

We're all in favor of a healthy skepticism. But we're also glad that this time it was somebody else's bug (for once!). Happy syncing. --Todd 10:40, 11 January 2006 (EST)