Re: [Evolution-hackers] web calendars

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo ximian com>]

On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 19:43 -0600, Hans Petter Jansson wrote:
> 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.
> 
right, in fact I guess we just need to register the https URI in the
calendar factory, and use a property on the source called 'use_ssl' to
specify whether it's http or https.

Does that sound ok?

cheers