Re: [Evolution-hackers] web calendars

[Hans Petter Jansson <hpj ximian com>]

On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 13:08, Bernard Leach wrote:

> I was looking at web calendars today in 1.5 (build from cvs) and came
> across the following problems.
> 
> In my environment my calendar is accessable via HTTPS and requires HTTP
> basic authentication to access it.  Unfortunately this creates two
> problems for me with Evolution;
> 
> 1) When I create a new calendar I can only enter http as the URI scheme
> and not https.
> 
> 2) To supply the authentication information I have to use user:pass@ in
> the URI.  This means the authentication information (which is the same
> as that to get read/write access to the calendar and my IMAP folders) is
> not handled the same as elsewhere in Evolution (and its stored in the
> clear in gconf).
> 
> The other question I have; in order to get read-write access to that
> calendar do I simply use the "Publish Free/Busy time" configuration in
> the Calendar settings dialog?  If so how does this information relate to
> the Calendar sources configuration?  To me, it seems like duplication.

HTTPS is not supported yet, but it might be simple to implement now that
we're using libsoup in the backend. Writing to remote calendars is not
supported in 1.5.

--
Hans Petter