940058 - caldav calendar fails with error

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Calendar :: Provider: CalDAV, defect)

Description

[travis]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/31.0.1650.57 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

I have a calendar with events on an OSX server. I can confirm the calendar exists and contains events by going to https://secure.company.com/webcal/
I have entered my account as caldav://secure.company.com

Thunderbird info: 


  Application Basics

    Name: Thunderbird
    Version: 24.1.0
    User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.1.0
    Profile Folder: Show Folder

              (Local drive)
    Application Build ID: 20131023145339
    Enabled Plugins: about:plugins
    Build Configuration: about:buildconfig
    Crash Reports: about:crashes
    Memory Use: about:memory

  Mail and News Accounts
    account1:
      INCOMING: account1, , (imap) secure.company.com:993, SSL, passwordEncrypted
      OUTGOING: secure.company.com:587, alwaysSTARTTLS, passwordCleartext, true

    account2:
      INCOMING: account2, , (none) Local Folders, plain, passwordCleartext

  Extensions
    Lightning, 2.6.2, true, {e2fda1a4-762b-4020-b5ad-a41df1933103}

  Important Modified Preferences

    Name: Value

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      font.name.serif.x-central-euro: Cambria
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      font.size.fixed.x-central-euro: 14
      font.size.fixed.x-cyrillic: 14
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      mail.openMessageBehavior.version: 1
      mail.winsearch.enable: true
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  Graphics

      Adapter Description: NVIDIA GeForce GT 630
      Vendor ID: 0x10de
      Device ID: 0x0f00
      Adapter RAM: 1024
      Adapter Drivers: nvd3dumx,nvwgf2umx,nvwgf2umx nvd3dum,nvwgf2um,nvwgf2um
      Driver Version: 9.18.13.3165
      Driver Date: 10-23-2013
      Direct2D Enabled: false
      DirectWrite Enabled: false (6.3.9600.16384)
      ClearType Parameters: ClearType parameters not found
      WebGL Renderer: false
      GPU Accelerated Windows: 0

      AzureCanvasBackend: skia
      AzureFallbackCanvasBackend: cairo
      AzureContentBackend: none

  JavaScript

  Incremental GC: 1

  Accessibility

    Activated: 0
    Prevent Accessibility: 0

  Library Versions

      Expected minimum version
      Version in use

      NSPR
      4.10
      4.10

      NSS
      3.15.2 Basic ECC
      3.15.2 Basic ECC

      NSS Util
      3.15.2
      3.15.2

      NSS SSL
      3.15.2 Basic ECC
      3.15.2 Basic ECC

      NSS S/MIME
      3.15.2 Basic ECC
      3.15.2 Basic ECC


Actual results:

I have no calendar events, and I get this error in the console:

Timestamp: 11/18/2013 5:37:43 PM
Error: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIURI.host]"  nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)"  location: "JS frame :: file:///C:/Users/Travis/AppData/Roaming/Thunderbird/Profiles/w0ifwbgu.default/extensions/%7Be2fda1a4-762b-4020-b5ad-a41df1933103%7D/components/calDavCalendar.js :: <TOP_LEVEL> :: line 1558"  data: no]
Source File: file:///C:/Users/Travis/AppData/Roaming/Thunderbird/Profiles/w0ifwbgu.default/extensions/%7Be2fda1a4-762b-4020-b5ad-a41df1933103%7D/components/calDavCalendar.js
Line: 1558
        if (this.mUri.host == "apidata.googleusercontent.com") {


Expected results:

Events in the calendar should show up.

Comment 1

[Stefan Sitter [:ssitter]]

To me "caldav://secure.company.com" doesn't look like a valid calendar address. I think caldav:// is not a known URL scheme name. Maybe try to use https:// instead. Calendar collections are not supported by Lightning too. Could you try to specify a correct calendar address?

Comment 2

[travis]

(In reply to Stefan Sitter from comment #1)
> To me "caldav://secure.company.com" doesn't look like a valid calendar
> address. I think caldav:// is not a known URL scheme name. Maybe try to use
> https:// instead. Calendar collections are not supported by Lightning too.
> Could you try to specify a correct calendar address?

I tried using the https scheme and the calendar doesn't give me any errors in the console, but it also won't let me enable it. Every time that I try it just reverts to the grey, disabled state when I click OK.

I am new to caldav and webcal, so I'm not familiar with how they work, what do you mean be "Calendar collections"?

Comment 3

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen][☁️📆]]

Using caldav:// is definitely wrong, we should probably improve the dialog to validate the url passed in. Please use https://. You mentioned that the calendar disables itself immediately, this is usually a sign that you are using the wrong url.

I believe Stefan got the words mixed up, a "calendar collection" is the container containing calendar items, so in layman's terms a "Calendar". What Lightning doesn't support is detecting the calendars through the "Principal URL", which is kind of like the URL to the calendaring account on your server.

Anyway, you need to change the URL to something like:

https://secure.company.com/webcal/myusername/personalcalendar

This differs per server type, so you will need to ask someone from your company what the right URL is. Possibly you can also retrieve it from the web interface.