Re: [Evolution] Accessing Web-based calendar

[Des Dougan <des DouganConsulting com>]

On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 18:53 +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 11:04 -0700, Des Dougan wrote:
> > On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 21:17 -0700, Des Dougan wrote:
> > > Sorry to respond to my own post, but I've played around some more, and
> > > now, when I  open the Calendar, I get an error dialog - Error on
> > > webcal://... Bad file format.
> > >
> > > It sounds like Evo is not getting the response from the server that it
> > > expects. 
> >
> >
> > The above problem seems to have been a permissions problem - although
> > Mozilla could see the calendar, Evolution couldn't until I broadened the
> > permissions.
> >
> > This then begs the question: can Evo (1.5.92 at present) read _and
> > write_ to web-based calendars?
> no, for 1.5/2.0 they are read-only.
>
> >  It seems odd that the "Add calendar"
> > settings dialog has no place for a username/password combination. Why is
> > this, and how does this relate to the Free/Busy functionality?
> we should probably add the option of entering username/password in that
> dialog, but that will have to wait till 2.2.
>
> File a bug to bugzilla.ximian.com about it if you wish.

Rodrigo,

Thanks for your response. If the calendar access is read-only, is the
design thought that it would be updated using another piece of software?
This seems odd, given Evo's function.

Thanks,

Des
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