407750 - Remote calendars are not loaded after returning to Thunderbird with Lightening

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 338527

(Calendar :: Provider: ICS/WebDAV, defect)

Description

[Joey Officer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11
Build Identifier: version 2.0.0.9 (20071031)

I am able to create a calendar in Lightening which is retrieve from a remote location, specifically from a Citadel backend.  Initial retrieval works fine, as does updates to the calendar.  However when I exit Thunderbird and return (after lunch, next day, doesn't matter) the link to the calendar is lost.  I am prompted for the username and password but still no events are returned.  If I delete the calendar and recreate it, the events are retrieved.

I tested in Sunbird and the same problem does not seem to exist, instead Sunbird does retrieve the tasks each time I return to the application.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create calendar with remote location (http://server/groupdav/calendar)
2. Appointments are retrieved.
3. Exit Thunderbird w/ Lightening
4. Launch Thunderbird w/ Lightening, enter username and password for the remote calendar.
5. Events are NOT retrieved
6. Delete remote calendar and re-create
7. Events are retrieved.
Actual Results:  
Calendar events are not available upon return to Thunderbird / Lightening.

Expected Results:  
I should be able to create a calendar once, and retrieve the information on subsequent exit and return to the application, instead of re-creating the calendar each time I load Thunderbird.

I reviewed the error console, and find this that might be of some use:

Error: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80040111 (NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE) [nsIHttpChannel.responseStatus]"  nsresult: "0x80040111 (NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE)"  location: "JS frame :: file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/jofficer/Application%20Data/Thunderbird/Profiles/un4kxalp.default/extensions/%7Be2fda1a4-762b-4020-b5ad-a41df1933103%7D/components/calICSCalendar.js :: anonymous :: line 885"  data: no]
Source File: file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/jofficer/Application%20Data/Thunderbird/Profiles/un4kxalp.default/extensions/%7Be2fda1a4-762b-4020-b5ad-a41df1933103%7D/components/calICSCalendar.js
Line: 885

Comment 1

[Stefan Sitter [:ssitter]]

What version of Lightning do you use?

The error message indicates that you might see the issue mentioned in Bug 338527. Do you use a proxy to access the calendar server? If yes I'd like you to compare the proxy settings in Sunbird and Thunderbird.

Comment 2

[Joey Officer]

(In reply to comment #1)
> What version of Lightning do you use?

I'm using lightning version .7 .  There is not a proxy between my client and the server, and the same network settings (or lack of any custom settings) are equal for both sunbird and Thunderbird / Lightning.

Comment 3

[Joey Officer]

(In reply to comment #1)
> The error message indicates that you might see the issue mentioned in Bug
> 338527. Do you use a proxy to access the calendar server? If yes I'd like you
> to compare the proxy settings in Sunbird and Thunderbird.
> 

My apologies.  I was mistaken in that I made the assumption that Thunderbird was NOT using proxy settings, I quick checked after I posted my previous comment, only to find that it is indeed using the autoconfig proxy.  Modifying this entry resolves the issue, atleast partially.

After completely reading the referenced bug, I believe this is a duplicate of 338527.  Please close this at your convenience and if you'd be so kind to add me on the distribution list for 338527, I would be thankful.

Regards,
joey

Comment 4

[Stefan Sitter [:ssitter]]

Thanks for checking back.