bookmark URL

Is there any way to code in java to find out the URL the user tried is a bookmark.

Thanks

What's a "bookmark" for the purposes of your Java application? Is that something you plan to implement, or something else?

Sorry, by bookmark I meant the URL that can be saved in a browser(Favorites in IE, Bookmarks in FF etc)

Please advise me a strategy how best it can be done.

Also I'd like to know how to find out if the application has been timed out.

Cheers

So, this Java code runs as an applet? Or what is the connection between that code and a browser?

its not applet

All a bookmark is is a URL; there's no difference on the server side.

So, in summary, your requirement is that your application should be able to get into another application (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, etc, etc) and find some of that application's stored data (namely favourites or bookmarks or whatever they call these URLs)?

If that's the case, then your question is really something like "Where does Internet Explorer store its Favourites list?"

jibs parap wrote:Also I'd like to know how to find out if the application has been timed out.

Which application? Yours or the browser? And what does "timed out" mean in the context of your application? (It doesn't really mean anything in the context of a browser.)

And what does "timed out" mean

time out = session time out

Sorry guys, Im asking a strategy how best it can be done. In other words, if your client put forward this requirement to be implemented, whats the answer you are going to give them?

Most of of the replies sound like 'we can't do it, go and change the requirement' or am I misunderstood?

No, most of the answers are saying that it is not understood, what, exactly, you're trying to do, so you should provide more detail about that.

It just struck me that the "java" which jibs parap asked about might possibly be Java code in a Web application. In that case the URL in question would be the URL of the request which the browser sent to the Web application. And the "session time out" would then refer to the Web application's session. This question would all start to make sense if we were told basic information like that.

So is my wild guess correct, jibs?

Yes, thats right Paul.

I think I went with a prejudiced mind...so was not clear enough. Hope everything is clear now with Pauls input. Now the answer..

Mine's still the same about the bookmark.

Yup. Your web application can't tell whether the browser has bookmarked a URL which it sends to you.

Unless... you were doing something with continuations or some sort of URL-embedded timestamping or something.

So I mean technically you could probably figure out a way to determine this for reasonable values of "robust"... whether or not it's worth it is a different story.

Thanks guys; trying to figure out what could be the best way. If you have any novel ideas, please shout.

I thought I had.