Re: [Evolution-hackers] Attachments?

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam opengroupware us>]

On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 11:23 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> Are attachments for tasks related to a CalDAV task list supposed to be
> functional?
> If the attachment is encoded as a link [and the site requires
> authentication] Evolution presents a "HTTP authentication required"
> error dialog and drops the attachment;  it doesn't ask for
> authentication or attempt to use the credentials used for the CalDAV
> server
> If the attachment is encoded as binary [present in the VTODO] it simply
> fails with an "operation not supported" message
> Evolution 2.32.1

I've managed to encode the attachments in such a way that they do not
raise any error when the task is viewed in Evolution;  however the
attachments simply do not appear.  I've verified in wireshark that the
attachments are received by Evolution.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: BaseHTTP/0.3 Python/2.7
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 01:55:06 GMT
Content-Length: 751475
Content-Type: text/calendar
ETag: 18092560:15
Connection: close

BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//PYVOBJECT//NONSGML Version 1//EN
BEGIN:VTODO
ATTACH;X-ORACLE-FILENAME=OGo18215321.ods;FMTTYPE=application/octet-stream;
ENCODING=BASE64;VALUE=BINARY;X-COILS-FILENAME=OGo18215321.ods;X-EVOLUTION-
 CALDAV-ATTACHMENT-NAME=OGo18215321.ods:VUVzREJCUUFBQWdBQUNkMnF6NkZ
 iRG1LTGdBQUFDNEFBQUFJQUFBQWJXbHRaWFI1Y0dWaGNIQnNhV05oZEdsdmJpOTJibVF1
 YjJGegphWE11Y.....