Closed
Bug 327602
Opened 18 years ago
Closed 17 years ago
Pushing the calendar file failed. Status code: 500: Illegal Calendar data format
Categories
(Calendar :: Provider: ICS/WebDAV, defect)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
RESOLVED
FIXED
People
(Reporter: jan, Assigned: mattwillis)
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Details
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(1 file)
1.45 KB,
patch
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cmtalbert
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first-review+
mvl
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second-review+
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Details | Diff | Splinter Review |
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051201 Thunderbird/1.5 When creating a yearly recurring event the calendar reports "Pushing the calendar file failed. Status code: 500: Illegal Calendar data format" Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create recurring yearly event 2. save 3. after save the error occurs Actual Results: The event is not stored on the central calendar. If the event came into Sunbird(thunderbirdplugin) from the server ( for example if used my PDA to edit the central calendar), than Calendar keeps complaining every time it tries to update the event ( to unset reminder)..
Comment 1•18 years ago
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A 500 error is from the server, so we need to know where you are trying to publish to. Right now, I suspect this is a problem with the server, rather than with Sunbird. Please also include your version information for what copy of Sunbird you're using.
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Comment 2•18 years ago
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I receive the same error usually related to recurrring yearly events like birthdays. my calendar server is communigate pro. Using: Mozilla Calendar 2006012105-cal Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051201 Thunderbird/1.5
Comment 3•18 years ago
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Hello, I have the same error for ALL calendar entries. After creating an event with sunbird 0.3a2 I see this error. some tests with exporting importing to communigate pro shows, that cgp don't like these extensions to the date lines DTSTART;TZID=/mozilla.org/20050126_1/Europe/Berlin:20060625T100000 DTEND;TZID=/mozilla.org/20050126_1/Europe/Berlin:20060625T110000 After deleting the ";TZID=/mozilla.org/20050126_1/Europe/Berlin" it is importing without errors. The support of Stalker told me, that this format is not confrming to the standard and so the will do nothing on this, i think. Are there right or wrong??? Thanks, thomas bl@gfz-potsdam.de
Comment 4•18 years ago
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(In reply to comment #3) > cgp don't like these extensions to the date lines > DTSTART;TZID=/mozilla.org/20050126_1/Europe/Berlin:20060625T100000 > DTEND;TZID=/mozilla.org/20050126_1/Europe/Berlin:20060625T110000 > The support of Stalker told me, that this format is not confrming to the > standard and so the will do nothing on this, i think. > > Are there right or wrong??? The spec gives the following example of the a VTIMEZONE in use: The following are examples of this property parameter: DTSTART;TZID=US-Eastern:19980119T020000 DTEND;TZID=US-Eastern:19980119T030000 During interop testing no one in CalConnect had problems with our timezones and I firmly believe they are within the spec. If you can elaborate at all on why they feel we're violating the spec, that would be greatly appreciated
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Comment 5•18 years ago
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*** Bug 344682 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
(In reply to comment #5) > *** Bug 344682 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** > I actually think that the problem is when there is a tag that has TAG;VALUE=SOMETHING:SOMETHING I say this because I am also having problems with the VALARM tags because of the TRIGGER;VALUE=DURATION:-PT15M If you take away the ;VALUE=DURATION portion it works fine.
Comment 7•18 years ago
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(In reply to comment #6) > (In reply to comment #5) > I say this because I am also having problems with the VALARM tags because of > the TRIGGER;VALUE=DURATION:-PT15M If you take away the ;VALUE=DURATION portion > it works fine. > RFC2445 (http://www.rfc-archive.org/getrfc.php?rfc=2445) is your friend. This duration bit looks legitimate to me too. " The "TRIGGER" property specifies when the alarm will be triggered. The "TRIGGER" property specifies a duration prior to the start of an event or a to-do. The "TRIGGER" edge may be explicitly set to be relative to the "START" or "END" of the event or to-do with the "RELATED" parameter of the "TRIGGER" property. The "TRIGGER" property value type can alternatively be set to an absolute calendar date and time of day value." So, you can easily get either a DURATION or a DATETIME value for TRIGGER. The VALUE=DURATION helps clients distinguish which it is they're getting. The RFC gives an example of this syntax with a DATETIME: BEGIN:VALARM TRIGGER;VALUE=DATE-TIME:19970317T133000Z REPEAT:4 DURATION:PT15M ACTION:AUDIO ATTACH;FMTTYPE=audio/basic:ftp://host.com/pub/sounds/bell-01.aud END:VALARM
Below is the response that I received from Communigate technical support. Does this make sense and if so can it be changed within the source code and not break other portions of the program? ###Start Blaming Others### Hello, I must note that the version of Sunbird that existed previously (1.x) was able to work with CGPro. The version of Sunbird you are currently using (0.3x) is an alfa-version. It can incorporate many changes. The change that is needed here is that the time-zone should be defined before it is used anywhere in the calendar data (quite logical, isn't it?). It is not the case now, and that is why import doesn't work. So I suggest you to contact Mozilla in this case so that they change the data order in their vCalendar data - VTIMEZONE specification should appear before the TZID. That will solve the problem. ###End Blaming Others###
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Comment 9•18 years ago
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Moving to WebDAV. CGPro doesn't have CalDAV support as of yet.
Component: Provider: CalDav → Provider: ICS/Webdav
QA Contact: caldav-provider → ics-provider
Comment 10•18 years ago
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(In reply to comment #9) > Moving to WebDAV. CGPro doesn't have CalDAV support as of yet. > We are using WebDAV. This is where the problem occurs.
Comment 11•18 years ago
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We might indeed put the VTIMEZONE section after the events. But I think that's not a violation of rfc2445. But if it helps with interoperability, changing the order might be a good thing,
Updated•18 years ago
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Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Comment 12•18 years ago
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(In reply to comment #11) > We might indeed put the VTIMEZONE section after the events. But I think that's > not a violation of rfc2445. But if it helps with interoperability, changing the > order might be a good thing, > Has any progress been made towards this? Where in the code is this done (what file)? Thanks.
Comment 13•18 years ago
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This still is returning Error number 0x0 Publishing the calendar file failed Status code: 500: Illegal Calendar data format Connecting to CommuniGatePro. When using the older Calendar there is no problem in connecting to CGP. I'm using Lightning 0.3a2+ (build 2006091506)
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Comment 14•18 years ago
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(In reply to comment #11) > We might indeed put the VTIMEZONE section after the events. We do. > But I think that's not a violation of rfc2445. It's not. > But if it helps with interoperability, changing the order might be a good > thing Many other ICS files I see do it this way.
Comment 15•18 years ago
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(In reply to comment #14) > (In reply to comment #11) > > We might indeed put the VTIMEZONE section after the events. > We do. > > > But I think that's not a violation of rfc2445. > It's not. > > > But if it helps with interoperability, changing the order might be a good > > thing > Many other ICS files I see do it this way. > So, does this mean that no changes will be made to the order for interoperability? If this is the case then anyone that uses Communigate for a server will need to find a new client.
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Comment 16•18 years ago
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(In reply to comment #15) > So, does this mean that no changes will be made to the order for > interoperability? If this is the case then anyone that uses Communigate for a > server will need to find a new client. That's not what it means at all. The bug just hasn't been fixed yet, as we're trying to get 0.3 out the door. Since we're not violating the spec at the moment (meaning it's a workaround for CGPro), it's not the highest priority.
Comment 17•18 years ago
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I dug into this (see http://groups.google.nl/group/demos.local.lists.cgp/browse_thread/thread/2b68396e1804be98/a14fb2091d69bd51?lnk=st&q=sunbird+communigate&rnum=1#a14fb2091d69bd51 sorry for the ugly link...) I think there's actually 2 problems. The VTIMEZONE-problem as discussed above which also happens when importing an ics-file (created by exporting from communigate) in a local calendar is one problem. The other (error 500 illegal format) throws a PROPFIND-unknown method in the error logs of communigate. I can't seem to reproduce this specific method now though, just getting error 500 "illegal Calendar data format" in the communigate logs. Just tested with different releases, 0.3a doesn't give this error, from 0.3b it does... Somewhere in between some backend-code seems to have changed.
Comment 18•18 years ago
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Communigate Pro is our main communication server and we really need a Linux calender application which has equal or better features than Outlook.
Comment 19•18 years ago
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I've been thinking about this. Cgate doesn't follow webdav-protocols. When we (users) add an event the whole ics has to be deleted and then rewritten. This worked up till version 0.3a but was rewritten for efficiency-reasons in 0.3b. I'm no programmer but perhaps someone could write a plugin for this (reverting to the old code)? Also Viraj Alankar wrote a proxy which only writes the altered events to communigate. http://linux.softpedia.com/get/Office/Scheduling/IMAP-Calendar-Proxy-7946.shtml This proxy was released under GPL-code and I think he wouldn't mind releasing it under a different license (his own page http://www.viraj.org/ is down now). I even think the stalker-developers wouldn't mind helping out if needed.
Comment 20•18 years ago
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I have documented more about this issue here: http://mail.communigate.com/~ab/files/moz-cal-cgp.html CommuniGate Systems (formerly Stalker Software) does not yet have complete webdav implemented for the server side storage area of our server product. I wish to vote for a higher priority for this bug report.
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Comment 21•18 years ago
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Example without this patch: (note VTIMEZONE at end) BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Mozilla.org/NONSGML Mozilla Calendar V1.1//EN BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20070111T122005Z LAST-MODIFIED:20070111T122005Z DTSTAMP:20070111T122005Z UID:610af4dd-9ca3-af42-98b6-2ed7461b328f SUMMARY:MondayVent DTSTART;TZID=/mozilla.org/20050126_1/America/Detroit:20070108T120000 DTEND;TZID=/mozilla.org/20050126_1/America/Detroit:20070108T130000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20070111T122005Z LAST-MODIFIED:20070111T122005Z DTSTAMP:20070111T122005Z UID:1fccfc24-6ee8-8f42-aa9d-99dca2c55140 SUMMARY:TuesdayVent DTSTART;TZID=/mozilla.org/20050126_1/America/Detroit:20070109T130000 DTEND;TZID=/mozilla.org/20050126_1/America/Detroit:20070109T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20070111T122005Z LAST-MODIFIED:20070111T122005Z DTSTAMP:20070111T122005Z UID:874a1625-c286-2e42-b199-c457306ba9ec SUMMARY:WednesdayVent DTSTART;TZID=/mozilla.org/20050126_1/America/Detroit:20070110T140000 DTEND;TZID=/mozilla.org/20050126_1/America/Detroit:20070110T150000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20070111T122005Z LAST-MODIFIED:20070111T122005Z DTSTAMP:20070111T122005Z UID:8df5e82b-347d-aa43-9d9b-f11a35bb2865 SUMMARY:ThursdayVent DTSTART;TZID=/mozilla.org/20050126_1/America/Detroit:20070111T150000 DTEND;TZID=/mozilla.org/20050126_1/America/Detroit:20070111T160000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20070111T122005Z LAST-MODIFIED:20070111T122005Z DTSTAMP:20070111T122005Z UID:bcd7ba46-e636-e04f-9c6c-ba057719d08a SUMMARY:FridayVent DTSTART;TZID=/mozilla.org/20050126_1/America/Detroit:20070112T160000 DTEND;TZID=/mozilla.org/20050126_1/America/Detroit:20070112T170000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:/mozilla.org/20050126_1/America/Detroit X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Detroit BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:19701025T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1;BYDAY=-1SU;BYMONTH=10 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:19700405T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=4 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR Same example with this patch: BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Mozilla.org/NONSGML Mozilla Calendar V1.1//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:/mozilla.org/20050126_1/America/Detroit X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Detroit BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:19701025T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1;BYDAY=-1SU;BYMONTH=10 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:19700405T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=4 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20070111T122722Z LAST-MODIFIED:20070111T122722Z DTSTAMP:20070111T122722Z UID:610af4dd-9ca3-af42-98b6-2ed7461b328f SUMMARY:MondayVent DTSTART;TZID=/mozilla.org/20050126_1/America/Detroit:20070108T120000 DTEND;TZID=/mozilla.org/20050126_1/America/Detroit:20070108T130000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20070111T122722Z LAST-MODIFIED:20070111T122722Z DTSTAMP:20070111T122722Z UID:1fccfc24-6ee8-8f42-aa9d-99dca2c55140 SUMMARY:TuesdayVent DTSTART;TZID=/mozilla.org/20050126_1/America/Detroit:20070109T130000 DTEND;TZID=/mozilla.org/20050126_1/America/Detroit:20070109T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20070111T122722Z LAST-MODIFIED:20070111T122722Z DTSTAMP:20070111T122722Z UID:874a1625-c286-2e42-b199-c457306ba9ec SUMMARY:WednesdayVent DTSTART;TZID=/mozilla.org/20050126_1/America/Detroit:20070110T140000 DTEND;TZID=/mozilla.org/20050126_1/America/Detroit:20070110T150000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20070111T122722Z LAST-MODIFIED:20070111T122722Z DTSTAMP:20070111T122722Z UID:8df5e82b-347d-aa43-9d9b-f11a35bb2865 SUMMARY:ThursdayVent DTSTART;TZID=/mozilla.org/20050126_1/America/Detroit:20070111T150000 DTEND;TZID=/mozilla.org/20050126_1/America/Detroit:20070111T160000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20070111T122722Z LAST-MODIFIED:20070111T122722Z DTSTAMP:20070111T122722Z UID:bcd7ba46-e636-e04f-9c6c-ba057719d08a SUMMARY:FridayVent DTSTART;TZID=/mozilla.org/20050126_1/America/Detroit:20070112T160000 DTEND;TZID=/mozilla.org/20050126_1/America/Detroit:20070112T170000 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR
Assignee: nobody → lilmatt
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Attachment #251170 -
Flags: second-review?(mvl)
Attachment #251170 -
Flags: first-review?(ctalbert.moz)
Comment 22•18 years ago
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Comment on attachment 251170 [details] [diff] [review] Use pvl_unshift for VTIMEZONEs, and pvl_push for all others Only one minor nit. Would it be possible to correct the indenting for the rest of the else block that is not in this patch (the existing code). Otherwise, looks good.
Attachment #251170 -
Flags: first-review?(ctalbert.moz) → first-review+
Comment 23•18 years ago
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(In reply to comment #20) > CommuniGate Systems (formerly Stalker Software) does not yet have complete > webdav implemented for the server side storage area of our server product. I > wish to vote for a higher priority for this bug report. So, what is the actual bug? What is not complete about the webdav implementation of communigate? the place of the vtimezone component in the file does not have anything to do with the webdav standard. Can anybody confirm if moving the vtimezone component does fix the problem?
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Comment 24•18 years ago
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mvl: Check out the blog post from the CommuniGate guy linked to in comment #20. The patch should fix the problem.
Comment 25•18 years ago
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According to that blogpost, communigate is fixable. Then it would actaulyl comply to the spec. So why should the sunbird code be changed?
Comment 26•18 years ago
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(In reply to comment #25) > According to that blogpost, communigate is fixable. Then it would actaulyl > comply to the spec. So why should the sunbird code be changed? I think that both parties should fix this on their end. We should try to to interoperate with all available server products (if possible) and communigate should really try to get this fixed, since other products that work on top of libical will also exhibit this behaviour.
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Comment 27•18 years ago
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I've already communicated with folks from CommuniGate to try and get them to fix their parsing, but until that happens, making this change in our code will allow more users to use our apps with their product, and will make our ICS look more similar to ICS generated by iCal, Outlook, Zimbra, etc.
Comment 28•18 years ago
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(In reply to comment #27) Patching the Calendar-code would mean also the old installs (4.x codebase) of Communigate would benefit (assuming this won't make it to a critical update of communigate which is in the 5.x versions now). Also, if the latter is true and there's no side-effects in the functioning of Calendar, it would seem logical to first parse the "meta-data" of the vevent and secondly the event itself. If one has a windows-build with the patch I would happily do some testing with different back-ends (webdav, cgate, local, synchronising with nokia and outlook etc etc) this weekend.
Comment 29•18 years ago
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Comment on attachment 251170 [details] [diff] [review] Use pvl_unshift for VTIMEZONEs, and pvl_push for all others I'd like to know if this really fixes the problem before committing it. libical is not our code, and is supposed to be as close to the original as possible. So any change to it is scary and needs a good reason.
Comment 30•18 years ago
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Comment on attachment 251170 [details] [diff] [review] Use pvl_unshift for VTIMEZONEs, and pvl_push for all others r2=mvl, so this can be checked in. Then it needs to be tested asap, to see if it does fix the problem. If not, this must be backed out. Oh, and add a reference to this bug in the code comments.
Attachment #251170 -
Flags: second-review?(mvl) → second-review+
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Comment 31•18 years ago
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Patch checked in on MOZILLA_1_8_BRANCH and trunk. Bas, Would you please test using tomorrow's nightly builds? They should contain this fix. I will only mark this FIXED after your confirmation.
Comment 32•18 years ago
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Just tested the latest nightly builds of both sunbird and ligtning on a webdav-server and local: no problems so nothng gets broken. On Communigate 4.3.12 I got no problems up till now when starting with blank agenda's. When using pre-existing agenda's there may be some problems (in my case outlook-mapi calendar, synchronized with my nokia), don't know yet wether these are caused by sunbird or by communigate. sunbird: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a2pre) Gecko/20070115 Calendar/0.6a1 lightning: 0.4a1 - build 2007011505 on Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 It seems like we finally have communigate with sunbird/lightning back... Going to do some more testing and troubleshooting. Thanks all...
Comment 33•17 years ago
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The problem I mentioned is caused by attendees getting doublequoted (see bug 368607 - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=368607). Besides this I haven't been able to find any bugs...
Comment 34•17 years ago
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Can this bug be marked FIXED?
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Comment 35•17 years ago
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Given comment 32 and comment 34, -> FIXED
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 17 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Comment 36•17 years ago
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Agree with lilmatt (didn't have rights to set to fixed at 2007-02-04). I will keep a keen eye on this though, doing the litmus-tests with local/file/ftp/http-webdav and http-communigate.
Comment 37•17 years ago
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But in which release these changes will appear ? The homepageURL http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/releases/lightning0.4a1.html doesn't exist and the release 0.3.1 contains this bug
Comment 38•17 years ago
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(In reply to comment #37) > But in which release these changes will appear? It is now fixed in current 0.4a1 nightly test builds and will appear in the next official release (probably 0.5).
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