1560868 - No error message for incorrect remote calendar format

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Calendar :: Provider: ICS/WebDAV, defect)

Description

[sam tygier]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Fedora; Linux x86_64; rv:67.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/67.0

Steps to reproduce:

I made a mistake setting up a network calendar, but struggled to debug it due to no error message being displayed.

Lightning version 6.2.6.1 in Thunderbird 60.6.1 on Fedora 29 x86-64.

1. File -> New -> Calendar
2. Choose "On the Network"
3. Leave on "iCalandar", but enter the address of a CalDAV calendar (mine is hosted on nextcloud)
4. Click next, enter username and password when prompted

Actual results:

New calendar is listed in the side pane, but unticked/disabled. No events are loaded from it. No error message. Not in a dialog, stderr or developer console.

There is no way to know if it is an issue with the connection, authentication, remote sever, or if I just need to wait longer.

Expected results:

At the very least I'd expect a "Could not connect to calandar" message. Even better if it could give a hint at the issue, e.g. "Could not connect to iCalendar server at hostname/address, please check format".

Comment 1

[Paul Menzel]

A debug option would indeed be nice.