266952 - Sunbird should register the webcal: protocol

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 295896

(Calendar :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Runako Godfrey]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1

I'm not sure if this is standard, but Apple is publishing iCal calendars with
urls of the form webcal://xxxxxxx.ics.  It would be cool if Sunbird were
registered to do something when i click links like that in Firefox.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Navigate to a page with a webcal:// link.  
2. Click webcal:// link
3.

Actual Results:  
Browser complains that webcal is not a registered protocol.

Expected Results:  
Launched/activated Sunbird and let me do something with the .ics file at the
link target.

Comment 1

[Mostafa Hosseini]

If the calendar extension is installed in firefox, it will handle webcal://
links. Otherwise, there should be a way in firefox to redirect the url to
external applications ( in this case, sunbird ) which makes this a browser bug.

Comment 2

[Justin Wood (:Callek)]

To let people know Firefox has "hidden" all external protocols using a
whitelist, in the past it was a blacklist, I am sure webcal is not in that
protocol, seems we may need a "helper" xpi for Firefox (at least) if using
Sunbird/TB/Suite for calendar.

(Confirming new, someone needs to do a dupe search, I dont have time right now,
though I will later if no-one comments)

Comment 3

[daneel]

How is this any different to http:// with a helper application registered for
the calendar MIME types?

Comment 4

[Duncan]

Sunbird properly relaces "webcal:" with "http:" (already).
Sample test cases: http://www.icalshare.com/

Proper registration in Windows with this registry file (sunbird.reg):
--------------------------
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\WEBCAL]
@="URL:WEBCAL (Web Calender Subscription Protokoll)"
"URL Protocol"=""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\WEBCAL\DefaultIcon]
@="C:\\Programme\\Mozilla Sunbird\\sunbird.exe,1"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\WEBCAL\shell]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\WEBCAL\shell\open]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\WEBCAL\shell\open\command]
@="C:\\Programme\\Mozilla Sunbird\\sunbird.exe -url \"%1\""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\WEBCAL\shell\open\ddeexec]
@="\"%1\",,0,0,,,,"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\WEBCAL\shell\open\ddeexec\Application]
@="Sunbird"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\WEBCAL\shell\open\ddeexec\Topic]
@="WWW_OpenURL"
--------------------------

This works: firefox sends it to SunBird... now all Sunbird needs to do is:
  a) include above registraion (see how firefox / moz does it) and 
  b) do something with the URL, like opening the "Subscribe to remote
calendar..." Dialog

Cheers, Duncan

Comment 5

[Jamie Zawinski]

So is there any way to get Firefox to behave properly with webcal: links when
Sunbird is being used instead of the calendar plugin?  

On OSX, you *must* link to "webcal:" URLs, or iCal doesn't pop up the subscribe
dialog (http: URLs to .ics files have non-useful behavior.)  

But that doesn't work at all with Firefox+Sunbird on Linux, so now I don't know
what kind of complicated instructions to put on my web page advertising my calendar.

Comment 6

[Joey Minta]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 295896 ***

Comment 7

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

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