On 2007 Nov, 05, at 15:45, Toby Elliott wrote: >> I mean, is it equally possible to, for example, delete a >> bookmark on my del.icio.us web page in Safari, reload the page, and >> have the deleted bookmark reappear? I've never seen that happen. > It's possible for outside views of your account, but not logged in > ones on your main page.
Well, the API has been well-behaved today. But, interestingly, now I just saw a glitch in http://del.icio.us/MyAccount which proves that it can make mistakes too. And I was logged in. Specifically, I had 384 posts in this account and deleted 4 of them using my app and hence the API. I immediately reloaded http://del.icio.us/MyAccount and saw listing of 383 posts. Reloaded again, saw 382. Reloaded again, saw 380. Now, this is not a big deal because it synchronized within seconds, but it tells me that http://del.icio.us/MyAccount can give wrong answers sometimes too. Therefore, it should not be used to correct the answers we get from the API. > You'll likely run into cookie problems here, among other things. OK, I don't think I'm going to do this, but I'm curious about what "cookie problems" there could be, since I thought that del.icio.us does not use cookies for authentication. (Your answer might help me in understanding another issue.) > Ping me directly if you see it happening again and I'll be able to > get a more definitive answer if I can catch it as it is happening. Will do. By the way, I forgot to mention that, although the changes were made over a period of 30 minutes, when they finally appeared in the posts/all, they appeared within a few minutes, probably all at once. Thanks again, Toby.
