279632 - Remote calendarsize zero

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 218983

(Calendar :: Internal Components, defect)

Description

[PeterStoss]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040114
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040114

When you add a calendar, export it to your remoteftp and delete all your events,
remote file size gets zero - normal, because of no entrys. Next update process
give error 
"This doesn't appear to be a valdi file. Here's what I got back from
ftp://username:[e-mail]/Calendar.ics:
Result:
"

Peter.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Add a calendar, transmit it to remote host
2. Delte all events, so remote file size will get zero
3. Try to do a new sync to remote host and you will get this error

Comment 1

[Torsten]

Confirmed with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a5)
Gecko/20050203 Mozilla Sunbird/0.2. 
Manually adding 
  BEGIN:VCALENDAR
  END:VCALENDAR
to the ical-file on the server solves the problem. 
This bug is very annoying since a main functionality of Sunbird is lost.

Comment 2

[Joey Minta]

Reporter,
    This looks like a similar issue to the one discovered in bug 218983, see
especially the final comment.  Also, look at the fact that bug 272852 was marked
as a duplicate of it, and it is almost identical with your description.  Please
review bug 218983, and if you agree that yours is a duplicate, please mark it as
such.

Comment 3

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 218983 ***