175908 - iCal invitations are not accepted by iCal, when opened from MailNews

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Attachments, defect)

Description

[Per Reedtz Thomsen]

Running Mozilla OS X 1.2a (20020910), on a tiBook, 800, with 1G RAM.

I have set up a MIME-type that will take '.ics' files (iCal invitations), and
open them with iCal.

However, when I do that iCal cannot read the invite.

I saved the file instead, and compared it to an invite saved from Apple Mail.

the difference is in the newline-character used:

- Moz MailNews uses \r
- Apple Mail uses \n

If I hand-edit the file saved from Mozilla, changing '\r' to '\n', the file
works in iCal.

Not sure what the 'correct' behavior is. On all unices that I know '\n' is the
right character... I realize that this is a 'Mac-ism', but it's not working for
iCal.

Comment 1

[Per Reedtz Thomsen]

Tried with build 2002102108, problem remains.

Comment 2

[Per Reedtz Thomsen]

Attachment: Example iCal.ics file with \r for newlines

Attaching sample file saved from Mozilla MailNews.

Comment 3

[Per Reedtz Thomsen]

Attachment: 'od -c' of the iCal.ics file

'od -c' of the iCal.ics file.

Comment 4

[Greg K.]

The old Mac OS X line endings problem.

Comment 5

[Greg K.]

Per, can you still reproduce this problem using a current nightly build?

Comment 6

[Greg K.]

Does iCal, like Mozilla, use RFC2445 calendar files? Should this file really be
MIME:text/calendar?

Comment 7

[Per Reedtz Thomsen]

After scanning RFC 2445, it looks very much like iCal uses it.

I saved an ICS file with build 2003021303, and iCal takes it without complaints.

So, it seems like it works now.

Comment 8

[Greg K.]

Comment on attachment 103662 [details]
Example iCal.ics file with \r for newlines

Fixing MIME type.

Comment 9

[Greg K.]

Resolving WFM per comment 7.