It fails because the get_file_info("http://www.corel.com/") call returns an
error. Thats because a HEAD on http://www.corel.com/ returns a 500 error (Server
Error).

yakk@yakk.net ~ $ telnet www.corel.com 80
Trying 209.167.40.5...
Connected to corel.ca.
Escape character is '^]'.
HEAD / HTTP/1.0

HTTP/1.1 500 Server Error
Server: Netscape-Enterprise/3.6 SP3
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 08:51:22 GMT
Content-length: 305
Content-type: text/html
Connection: close


As I see it there are three options:
a) Get Corel to fix their server
b) Remove Corel from our bookmarks
c) Hack nautilus/gnome-vfs to handle broken sites like this.

I think that (a) is the best option. (b) is easier but a cop out and (c) would
be really unfortunate, and would probably affect performance.



------- Additional Comments From bud@eazel.com 2000-10-31 09:36:58 ----

We need to do one of these for PR2, since we don't want this
link to appear broken.

My suggestion would be (d) -- fall back to a "GET" if "HEAD" fails,
and do (a) in parallel. One concern I have is if corel fails on HEAD,
how many other sites are there like that?



------- Additional Comments From eli@eazel.com 2000-10-31 10:42:39 ----

Please note that "Corel" does not appear in
/gnome-source/nautilus/nautilus/data/static_bookmarks.xml --- does this affect
PR2 milestone?



------- Additional Comments From eli@eazel.com 2000-10-31 12:07:40 ----

Never mind --- the exact same bug occurs with default bookmark "Inprise". Will
confirm fix this afternoon.



------- Additional Comments From eli@eazel.com 2000-10-31 18:04:32 ----

Verified fixed on a freshly pulled build --- both www.corel.com and
www.borland.com/kylix now display on Nautilus.

(However, the latter URL cites the number of bytes in the sidebar as "0". Not
sure why, but it's unrelated; e-mailed ramiro.)



------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2001-09-09 20:45 -------
Bug depends on bug(s) 44310.