Re: [Evolution-hackers] Outlook / Evolution freebusy integration

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo ximian com>]

On Wed, 2003-05-14 at 21:40, Ronald Kuetemeier wrote:
> I gave a talk about Evolution yesterday at CLUE (Colorado Linux Users
> and Enthusiasts). To show how to integrate calendar scheduling between
> Outlook and Evolution, no Exchange server just Apache/dav and
> phpiCalendar.
> I had to change:
> Change: ORGANIZER to an ATTENDEE (for Outlook98 > ?) to be able to use
> freebusy information generated by Evolution (my freebusy pgm, uses
> Evolution cal_client_get_free_busy). Outlook at least 98 chokes when
> there is an ORGANIZER record.
> 
> Apply the attached patch to read all freebusy information from server in
> Evolution 1.2.4.
> 
this is already fixed in HEAD.

> Any idea why the connection is closed if there are less then requested
> bytes returned from the server. I have tested it in Outlook and
> Evolution with tens of freebusy records seems to work both directions.
> 
the bug was that the code assumed that the buffer could be always filled
when reading, which is only true for local files, but not for remote
ones.

cheers