Re: [Evolution] calenders on WebDAV?

[Andrew Z <andrewz springsrescuemission org>]

Pete Biggs wrote:
> 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.
>   
Too bad.  I really prefer Apache and WebDAV for a few reasons:
* Many other applications (such as Kontact and Apple iCal) support WebDAV.
* WebDAV on an existing Apache is /much/ easier to setup than Cosmo.


Andrew