577280 - error trying to connect to private google calendar

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Calendar :: Provider: GData, defect)

Description

[Marco Ferretti]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/5.0.375.99 Safari/533.4
Build Identifier: Provider for Google Calendar 0.7, Lightning 1.02b, Thunderbird 3.1rc2

Opened calendar, added a calendar and selected "on the network", "Google Calendar"; pasted private url of my personal calendar on google calendar (xml) and clicked next.
Username and password 
I get warn symbol next to my newly created calendar. 
Enabled the logs and this is what I get : 

Error getting items:
[Exception... ""  nsresult: "0x804b001f (NS_ERROR_REDIRECT_LOOP)"
location: "JS frame ::
file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/mferretti/Application%20Data/Thunderbird/Profiles/uocs403v.default/extensions/%7Be2fda1a4-762b-4020-b5ad-a41df1933103%7D/modules/calUtils.jsm
->
file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/mferretti/Application%20Data/Thunderbird/Profiles/uocs403v.default/extensions/%7Ba62ef8ec-5fdc-40c2-873c-223b8a6925cc%7D/js/calGoogleCalendar.js
:: cGC_getItems_response :: line 839"  data: no]


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
see details



The calendar downloads nicely if I try to subscribe to it using a ical provider but it seems that I do not have writing permission

Comment 1

[Bas van den Bosch]

ical is readonly. 

xml is used in conjunction with the calendar-provider Phillip created:
https://addons.mozilla.org/nl/thunderbird/addon/4631/

When using caldav you should follow the instructions on
http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=99358#sunbird

If this works, please mark this bug as "resolved - works for me"

Comment 2

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:2.0b2pre) Gecko/20100701 Lightning/1.1a1pre SeaMonkey/2.1a3pre - Build ID: 20100701101320

(In reply to comment #0)
[...]
> The calendar downloads nicely if I try to subscribe to it using a ical provider
> but it seems that I do not have writing permission

Strange... I connect to my Google calendar using (in Lightning + gdata-provider) the "public" iCAL link (a long URL starting http: //www.google.com/calendar/ical/ and ending in /basic.ics) and my Google UN & PW (which are not shown in the calendar's "Properties" but in the Password Manager they are: the UN is my "non @gmail" email address known to Google), I can modify its events in Lightning, and the changes are reflected in the Google-calendar web interface opened in the browser.

The idea is that, when subscribing to the calendar as "Google calendar", the *.ics URL works. (Subscribing to it as "ICS calendar" has IIRC no provision for UN&PW.)

I haven't tested this on Lightning 1.0b2 and gdata-provider 0.7 because SeaMonkey wasn't built on Gecko 1.9.2, but AFAICR this behaviour was unchanged between 1.9.1 (Sm 2.0.x + L 1.0b1 + GDP 0.6b1) and current trunk.

Comment 3

[Marco Ferretti]

@ Bas : 
CalDAV works nicely, so I suppose I can live with it ( that's why I marked it with works for me ). The instructions  for xml do not work for me which is why I opened this thread. 
@Tony : 
tried the public calendar too but I am not asked for un&pwd ( I double checked password manager and made sure that no reference 2 my calendar account; the error console shows this error  : "Warning: There has been an error reading data for calendar: basic.  However, this error is believed to be minor, so the program will attempt to continue. Error code: READ_FAILED. Description: "