Re: [Evolution] sharing calendars: CalDAV over SSH

[Milan Crha <mcrha redhat com>]

On Sat, 2009-05-16 at 10:13 -0700, Jan Pfeifer wrote:
> hey Millan, many thanks for the answers!! 
>
>
> Unfortunately I haven't managed to make it work yet.
>
> After a few tries with the public Yahoo! Calendar, I hit the following issues:
>
> -  They publicize their caldav address as an "https" address, see:
>
> http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/calendar/yahoocalendar/sync/sync-05.html
>
> - But evolution always convert the "https" to "caldav" and fails to connect.

Yes, it converts the protocol to caldav. To use https check 'Use SLL' in
calendar preferences.

> I think I got over this, by changing the address in the caldav part to the port 443 (appending ":443") to 
> the hostname.
>
> - Now evolution was able to read most of the entries in the yahoo calendar -- strangely not all of them 
> though.

Depends on the event type. There are still opened some CalDAV bugs, one
I can think of is about detached instances of recurring events. There is
no support for them (yet).

> - Finally when I tried to change one of the calendar entries, evolution froze.
>
> Do you think this is a problem with yahoo calendar or evolution or both ?

Any backtrace of the frozen evolution? Without that it's hard to tell.
Anyway, this sounds quite out of scope of this mailing list, please open
a bug in http://bugzilla.gnome.org against Evolution, and let's see
there. (I guess your evolution-data-server process crashed because of
incorrect data passed to some libical function, but that's really just a
wild guess.)

> Have you had better experience with Davical ( http://www.davical.org ) ?

The things you mentioned (and if my guesses are correct) are pretty same
for any CalDAV server and requires fixing on Evolution side. Though I've
pretty good experience with DAViCal.

        Bye,
        Milan