273476 - Thunderbird calendar needs to be built with FTP enabled for remote calendars

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Calendar :: Lightning Only, defect)

Description

[RickM]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041128 Firefox/1.0 (Debian package 1.0-4)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041124 Thunderbird/0.9

MVL helped me sort this one out:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=177309

Thunderbird-cal 20041124 and Sunbird 0.02b were both built without FTP support.
He said that he's already added/turned it on in Sunbird, but it still needs to
be done for Thunderbird calendar to enable FTP for remote calendar publishing.

I noted that Firefox/0.9 20041124-cal and Mozilla 1.7 calendars both handle FTP
just fine.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Try to use FTP for remote calendars publishing.
2. Set the URL to ftp://user:pwd@hostname/path/calendar.ics, or the same without
the user:pwd@ login information.
3.

Actual Results:  
Any attempt at using FTP for remote calendars will just sit with the circular
arrows spinning.

Expected Results:  
With FTP enabled in TB-cal, it should behave just like Firefox-cal from the same
build dates does.

Comment 1

[Rod Whiteley]

Duplicate of bug 253567.

Thunderbird does not contain FTP support, so an extension cannot simply turn it on.

Comment 2

[Matthew (lilmatt) Willis]

Reassigning all automatically assigned bugs from Mostafa to nobody@m.o

Bugspam filter: TorontoMostafaMove

Comment 3

[Sebastian Schwieger]

While comment 3 is probably right, we should handle any attempts to use ftp in lightning. probably with an error message?? Thoughts?

Comment 4

[Martijn Coppoolse]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Duplicate of bug 253567.
> 
> Thunderbird does not contain FTP support, so an extension cannot simply turn it on.

Then how does Addressbooks Synchronizer ( https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/2533/ ) do it?

Comment 5

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

On tb2.0 + lightning0.7 remote ftp calendars work just fine, both on linux and windows. On trunk (and lightning trunk) it doesn't (at least on linux).

Comment 6

[Martin Schröder [:mschroeder]]

Can we close this bug now that FTP has been enabled for Thunderbird trunk builds (bug 427203)?

Comment 7

[Daniel Boelzle [:dbo]]

I think we can.