distributed bookmarking

[Robert Penz]

Hi!

I'm not on the list so please answer in cc to me. thx.

I want to write a software which allows me to have my bookmarks synchronized 
between my various PCs. As I'm using mostly Konqueror (except sites that 
don't work with it) I want to write it in the beginning for it, if there is 
not allready a software which does following:

- synchronizing the bookmarks in the background. e.g. a new bookmark is 
visible within minutes on the other running PCs

- the user should not see any differences to normal bookmarks, its just also 
on the other PC too.

- the synchronizing is done over a server based on standard protocols like 
webdav or SOAP so it works fine behind a company firewall/proxy.

- the clients poll the server or keep an connection open

As I'm not really a C++ programmer (python is my language of choice) and to be 
more browser independent I would like to make a daemon/periodical called 
script which looks at the bookmarks.xml and searches for changes and 
synchronizes them.

- So the question is how can I inform the running konqueror processes that the 
should reread the file?

- And can I lock the file during writing and konqueror is fine with it?

- Does Konqueror lock the file before writing?

ps: If someone is already writing or thinking of writing a plugin for 
konqueror I'm happy to help with the server part/interface 
specification/synchronization algorithms. Doing an extra client program is 
just because I don't have c++ knowledge, the time to get into the konqueror 
code and at a later point to do the same for firefox.

-- 
Regards,
Robert
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Robert Penz
robert AT penz DOT name