200627 - cunning if mozilla could download vcf files straight into the calendar file

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Calendar :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Ken Guest]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312

It would be a very good idea if the Calendar system imported vCal files straight
from the web. ie import vcs file straight from an URL clicked on in any of the
[mail|irc|web] clients.
http://www.dominoconsulting.net/Stars2002/StarsSchedule2002.vcs is a valid url
for testing with.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Type in http://www.dominoconsulting.net/Stars2002/StarsSchedule2002.vcs
2. Press enter
3. Note with disappointment vcs file is not imported automagically.

Actual Results:  
nothing

Expected Results:  
should have imported details in the
http://www.dominoconsulting.net/Stars2002/StarsSchedule2002.vcs file

Comment 1

[Mostafa Hosseini]

Does the calendar service decide to handle the content based on extensions or
protocol or mime type? If that link would have webcal:// as its protocol and/or
text/calendar as its mime type wouldn't this happen already?
I was able to add that location as a new calendar and get it to show up in
calendar with no problems though.

Comment 2

[Ken Guest]

that was probably a bad example.

I don't want to add .vcs files as new calendars - I want the event described in
it added to my existing [personal] calendar.

What I want to be able to do is download events (such as
http://www.van.org/vcsfiles/20030510TheDessoffChoirs_2469.vcs) and task lists
into Mozilla.
I don't want to have 20 seperate calendars all over the place, I want my 20
downloaded events listed in my one personal calendar.

why do we need to have a 'webcal://' protocol?

Comment 3

[Mike Potter]

You don't need to have a webcal:// protocol, that was just something dumb
invented by Apple.
If you add text/calendar .vcs to your mime.types file for your Apache web
server, to ensure that your .vcs file is served with the content type
text/calendar, the calendar will prompt you to subscribe to that file (this is
better than importing files).
Alternatively, you can now save that file to disk, then import it, since we just
added the ability to import .vcs files.

Comment 4

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

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