Re: [Evolution] calenders on WebDAV?

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 13:48 -0600, Andrew Ziem wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 09:49 -0600, Andrew Z wrote:
> > > Does Evolution 2.4 or 2.6.1 support read/write calendars on WebDAV?  Is
> > > there a special URL?  In 2.6.1, when I try On The Web with webdav:// or
> > > webcal:// URLs, I cannot modify the calendar.
> > >
> > > Our office is trying out sharing .ics calendars on Apache WebDAV
> > > (without authentication) between Mozilla Lightning, KDE Kontact, and
> > > Apple iCal, and so far all work OK except Evolution.
> >
> > 2.6.1 supports caldav - which as far as I can fathom out is like webdav,
> > but sufficiently not like it that anything works as you'd expect.  From
> > experience I would say that caldav uses similar net protocols to webdav
> > (but not compatible) and it stores the data in multiple .ics files (one
> > for each appt) rather than one big one like iCal.
> >
> > I'm actually quite peeved about it all - I specifically asked a while
> > ago if 2.6 supported iCal over webdav and the answer was an unequivocal
> > 'yes'. See:
> >
> > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-list/2006-February/msg00279.html
> >
> >
> > So having waited patiently for 2.6 to come out, it was quite
> > disappointing to find that it didn't work.
> >
> > To get read/write web based calendars on Evo, you need to use caldav -
> > 'On the Web' calendars are read only.
>
> I assumed the same as you for CalDAV, but in practice, it doesn't work at
> all.  When I click the checkbox to enable it, almost nothing happens.  The
> box stays unchecked, and the calendar never shows up.

As far as I can tell that's because Evo can't understand what it's
getting back from the server so immediately disables it.

In the end I've started using the OSAF cosmo server - it does support
caldav and works OK with Evo:

    http://cosmo.osafoundation.org/

It's still early days for the software though and I'd be very wary about
using it as a production server.

P.