245816 - Passwords with punctuation cause remote subscriptions to fail

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Calendar :: Sunbird Only, defect)

Description

[Philip Kufeldt]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

When subscribing to a remote calendar, I used the following valid information:
Location: https://cuba/calendars/pak.ics
Username: pak
Password: blue;pea

This fails and produces a popup which says:

This does not appear to be a valid file. Here's what I got back from
https://pak/;pea@cuba/calendars/pak.ics:
Result: 

When I update my htpassword to not use a ; things work properly

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Subscribe to a remote calendar with a password which include a ;
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
an error popup was delivered saying: 

This does not appear to be a valid file. Here's what I got back from
https://pak/;pea@cuba/calendars/pak.ics:
Result:

Comment 1

[Justin Wood (:Callek)]

assuming Moz Suite 1.6...

If so this is fixed in latest version of calendar xpi's (we use password manager
now, and if it still exists there is not _our_ problem but the PM [wallet]
people)...

Comment 2

[Justin Wood (:Callek)]

forgot to mark Fixed, if my analysis is incorrect please say so, or re-open (I 
forget if reporter is allowed to re-open bugs).

Comment 3

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

The bugspam monkeys have been set free and are feeding on Calendar :: Sunbird Only. Be afraid for your sanity!