[Cialug] Evolution and iCal

[Stuart Thiessen]

Last night, I tried to use the webcal:// format but it doesn't support 
authentication. CalDAV supports authentication, but I guess it doesn't 
support WebDAV exactly enough to make the connection or something. The 
webcal:// format works fine for unauthenticated iCal files.

Interesting!  I will look into Sunbird and try the binary packages.k

Thanks,

Stuart

On Jan 5, 2007, at 11:21, Matthew Nuzum wrote:

> It looks like with Evolution you have caldav:// and webcal:// formats
> available (in addition to lo local, contacts and weather). I've
> successfully used google calendar with Evolution, but it doesn't work
> quite like the regular calendar. It appears to be read only. However, 
> it
> does appear that the free/busy thing works. The google calendar use
> webcal://
>
> On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 11:10 -0600, Bryan Baker wrote:
>> So, what I am saying, is stop trying to use CalDAV in Evolution and
>> switch it to use WebDAV instead, since you say CalDAV is not running
>> on your server, but earlier you said you were using CalDAV to
>> connect. I believe the transport mechanisms in WebDAV and CalDAV are
>> similar if not identical, but CalDAV was built with extended
>> calendaring support.
>>
>> Mozilla Calendar is a very old version of what has become Sunbird.
>> There are Linux binary packages on the site:
>>
>> http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/
>>
>> Though you don't get to use apt upgrade or update at least you don't
>> have to compile.
>> Hopefully they'll get the same update functions that Firefox and
>> Thunderbird have now soon.
>>
>> On Jan 5, 2007, at 11:00 AM, Stuart Thiessen wrote:
>>> I don't have CalDAV running. It's been a while since I set it up,
>>> but I think it is WebDAV that is running right now. I looked for
>>> Sunbird on the Ubuntu list of applications, but it is not listed
>>> right now. So that means that I will have to download the sources
>>> and compile. I have done sources and compiling before, but I
>>> haven't always had those succeed, so I am not as eager to go that
>>> route :) .
>>>
>>> I did try Mozilla Calendar which I thought would be nearly similar
>>> to Sunbird. But my Apache server complained that Mozilla Calendar
>>> was not sending authentication right. So, I'm not sure why that
>>> didn't work. I also tried KOrganizer, but it didn't seem to be
>>> there yet.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Stuart
>>>
>>> On Jan 5, 2007, at 10:48, Bryan Baker wrote:
>>>
>>>> Do you actually have the CalDAV Apache module running? Have you
>>>> tried simple WebDAV? It's my understanding that CalDAV is a
>>>> separate, server side protocol that you have to be running a
>>>> server for (which I believe is an Apache extension) I have Sunbird
>>>> and iCal co-existing as well as Sunbird allows (it's still at 0.3)
>>>> but I only use WebDAV since I don't have a CalDAV Apache module.
>>>> Have you tried w/ Sunbird?
>>>>
>>>> On Jan 5, 2007, at 10:12 AM, Stuart Thiessen wrote:
>>>>> I ran into an interesting problem last night. I was trying to set
>>>>> up Evolution on the Ubuntu laptop. I have a Mac Mini that is our
>>>>> family computer. My wife keeps her calendar and email on that. I
>>>>> have set up Apache on there so she can publish her iCal calendars
>>>>> on there and I can use my work laptop which is a Mac to subscribe
>>>>> to her calendars at home and keep our schedules clear. I also
>>>>> publish my work calendar to the same place so my wife can
>>>>> subscribe to my calendar. I set it up to be authenticated, so
>>>>> they could not be downloaded by just anyone who had access to our
>>>>> home network.
>>>>>
>>>>> Well, I thought Evolution should be able to handle this since it
>>>>> supports the iCalendar standard. This is my first time using
>>>>> Evolution. But when I use Evolution to connect to the calendars
>>>>> using CalDAV, it will make the connection, but the subscribed
>>>>> calendars remain unchecked and their data is unavailable. This is
>>>>> Evolution 2.8. Any ideas besides removing authentication :) ?
>>>>> Other iCal unauthenticated calendars available from iCalShare.com
>>>>> work just fine.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>
>>>>> Stuart
>>>>>
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