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Hylton replied on November 15, 2009 11:50 to the problem "Xmarks for IE fails yet Firefox addon works?" in Xmarks:

Hi Colin,
After getting the 403 error I decided to do some investigation on the error. turns out it points to a network error. The dual-boot machine giving the error is behind an IPCop firewall and as it browses and and communicates well otherwise, I decided to try something. I added the box IP as fully allowed but then decided to only allow port 403 as an allowed port on the Advanced Proxy addon. Only doing the port didn't work I had to allow the the IP. Xmarks for IE 1.1.3 worked without an issue and managed to synchronize the bookmarks and Favourites.

For me this is PROBLEM SOLVED.

silly I’m Happy I got it working but did it have to be something on my own network that was broken :)

Hylton replied to "Xmarks for IE fails yet Firefox addon works?", but it was removed. see the change log

Hylton replied on November 14, 2009 14:45 to the problem "Xmarks for IE fails yet Firefox addon works?" in Xmarks:

Colin, Sorry to say but I am still getting 403 network error when using the XMarks for IE. If I use Firefox XMarks on Windows, it works fine.

Hylton replied on November 10, 2009 18:32 to the problem "Xmarks for IE fails yet Firefox addon works?" in Xmarks:

Albie, Sorry, wht you are reporting is another issue. This report is about the synchronization failing on IE, whilst it works on Linux and even Windows using Firefox.
Please raise another problem report so as to get mazimum exposure for your problem as opposed to being added into an existing issue.
Thanks

Hylton replied on November 06, 2009 09:05 to the question "How do I sort my bookmarks alphabetically?" in Xmarks:

Lets hope the developers see the unhappiness and implement this.

Hylton replied on November 05, 2009 20:19 to the question "How do I sort my bookmarks alphabetically?" in Xmarks:

What I like about XMarks, aside from being free, is that it i s cross-platform ie I can use it on Linux or Windows

Hylton replied on November 05, 2009 19:55 to the question "How do I sort my bookmarks alphabetically?" in Xmarks:

We can only hope the developers hear us and that as a result it comes to fruition. Failing that, I am sure there are other bookmarks managers who have the functionaility.

Hylton replied on November 04, 2009 15:35 to the problem "Xmarks for IE fails yet Firefox addon works?" in Xmarks:

Ok, accepting that there is a different way Firefox and IE make http requests, is there not a way to make Xmarls for IE use the Firefox way of issuing HTTP requests as out of the two ways, that is the one that works?

Hylton replied on November 03, 2009 07:32 to the problem "Xmarks for IE fails yet Firefox addon works?" in Xmarks:

I set the encryption to no encryption, signed out, and signed back in again, checked encryption and tried to sync but there was still an error. Error read:
XmarksException during sync attempt: xmarks exception [source: network, id: 403] 403 error from server.
Having a look at the help suggested that it might be my firewall but then why does Xmarks on firefox under Linux behind the same firewall work flawlessly?

Hylton replied on October 31, 2009 19:00 to the problem "Xmarks for IE fails yet Firefox addon works?" in Xmarks:

Tried and still received an error. Something about a 403 and server error. sorry

Hylton replied on October 30, 2009 16:07 to the problem "Xmarks for IE fails yet Firefox addon works?" in Xmarks:

Version 1.0.0.1 and I keep checking if there is an update by going into the app advanced section and checking for updates. It always comes back and says it is the latest version.

Hylton replied on October 28, 2009 16:40 to the problem "Xmarks for IE fails yet Firefox addon works?" in Xmarks:

I am still hving a problem as I have just checked. Log listed below:

Wed Oct 28 18:32:01 2009: Downloading Favorites
Wed Oct 28 18:32:01 2009: New SyncRequest Initialized [POST]: http://sync.xmarks.com/sync/bookmarks... (cleaned body: {"log":{"mid":"knp19h"},"manual":true,"retry":3}
)
Wed Oct 28 18:32:02 2009: Sync canceled [403]; either a network issue or user decided not to authenticate
Wed Oct 28 18:32:02 2009: XmarksException during sync attempt: XmarksException [source: network, id: 403]: 403 Error from server:
Wed Oct 28 18:32:02 2009: Attaching observers

Hylton replied on October 22, 2009 07:28 to the problem "Xmarks for IE fails yet Firefox addon works?" in Xmarks:

Hi Colin,

I've attached the log file excerpt

Thu Oct 22 09:21:26 2009: Logged on as zr1hpc
Thu Oct 22 09:21:26 2009: New SyncRequest Initialized [POST]: https://login.xmarks.com/login/signtoken (cleaned body: {"log":{"mid":"knp19h"},"manual":true,"retry":2,"username":"zr1hpc"}
)
Thu Oct 22 09:21:28 2009: Cleaned SyncRequest response from server: {
"status" : 0
}

Thu Oct 22 09:21:38 2009: Starting synchronization
Thu Oct 22 09:21:38 2009: New SyncRequest Initialized [POST]: http://sync.xmarks.com/sync/bookmarks... (cleaned body: {"log":{"mid":"knp19h"},"manual":true,"retry":2}
)
Thu Oct 22 09:21:38 2009: Sync canceled [403]; either a network issue or user decided not to authenticate
Thu Oct 22 09:21:38 2009: XmarksException during sync attempt: XmarksException [source: network, id: 403]: 403 Error from server:
Thu Oct 22 09:21:38 2009: Attaching observers

Hylton started following the question "Xmarks sync for Firefox and IE on same computer?" in Xmarks.

Hylton reported a problem in Xmarks on October 15, 2009 08:11:

Xmarks for IE fails yet Firefox addon works?

I have a Win XP machine behind an IPCop 1.4.21 firewall that I use both Firefox and IE installed. Latest Xmarks for Internet Explorer is installed as well as as an addon to Firefox. Firefox synchronisation works fine, Xmarks for IE complains of error during sync :(

Hylton replied on August 01, 2009 06:31 to the question "How do I sort my bookmarks alphabetically?" in Xmarks:

Nate,
The ability to sort bookmarks in the XMarks web interface is still lacking from what I have experienced.
I realise that the bookmarks can be sorted in Firefox but as an online bookmark manager, that a variety of browsers can use, the ability to sort the bookmarks via the web interface by right clicking on a folder is lacking.

Hylton marked one of Nate's replies in Xmarks as useful. Nate replied to the problem "The Bookmark Manager is no longer in sync with the server error".

Hylton shared an idea in Xmarks on June 22, 2009 08:19:

StumbleUpon integration?

How about integrating with another 'bookmark' engine called Stumble Upon so that adding into Stumble Upon allows folder selection in XMarks

Hylton reported a problem in Xmarks on June 21, 2009 15:16:

The Bookmark Manager is no longer in sync with the server error

While editing my bookmarks via the web interface I get the below message:

"The Bookmark Manager is no longer in sync with the server. This usually results from another synchronizer having synchronized recently.

To continue editing your bookmarks, please reload this page."

I realise that my local bookmarks are out of sync so what's the problem?

There is no reload on the page and I have to sign out and sign in again until it happens again in about 10 minutes.

Most ANNOYING

Hylton replied on June 21, 2009 14:10 to the question "How do I sort my bookmarks alphabetically?" in Xmarks:

The ability to sort bookmarks or folders of bookmarks is something that is sadly lacking from theis product. Why a bookmark manager was released without the obvious feature of being able to alphabetically sort I do not know.

Sorting by tags/keywords would also be an added bonus.