[Cosmo] Exception When PUTting Event, Slowness when PUTing recurring event

Cyrus Daboo cyrus+lists.cosmo at daboo.name
Thu Dec 22 09:17:45 PST 2005


Hi Grant,

--On December 22, 2005 9:03:37 AM -0800 Grant Baillie 
<grant at osafoundation.org> wrote:

> FWIW, / is pretty common in TZIDs (e.g. I think most tzids in Apple  iCal
> contain it). My reading of rfc 2445 is that it's OK, viz  (collected from
> the grammar):
>
>       tzidparam  = "TZID" "=" [tzidprefix] paramtext CRLF
>       tzidprefix = "/"
>       paramtext  = *SAFE-CHAR
>       SAFE-CHAR  = WSP / %x21 / %x23-2B / %x2D-39 / %x3C-7E
>                  / NON-US-ASCII
>
> The tzidprefix bit doesn't really make any sense to me, but since /  is
> %x2F, it's a SAFE-CHAR anyway.

'/' at the start of a TZID is reserved for vendor specific tzid namespaces 
or a standard registry. '/' in the middle of a TZID has no special meaning, 
but is allowed.

-- 
Cyrus Daboo




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