Re: [Evolution] Calendar substitutes "http://" for a "caldav://" address

[Cameron Adamez <cameron soycow org>]

On Mon, 2015-08-17 at 08:56 +0200, Milan Crha wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-08-14 at 10:03 -0700, Cameron Adamez wrote:
> > I have Davical installed on a server. The URL that it uses for
> > calendars is in the format of caldav
> > ://server.domain.name/caldav.php/username/calendar/
> >
> > However, when I tried this in Evolution 3.16.4, I get the following
> > error:
> > Unable to connect to 'Unnamed': Cannot open calendar: Unexpected 
> > HTTP
> > status code 405 returned (Not Allowed) for URI: 
> > http://server.domain.name/caldav.php/username/calendar/
> >
> > Is this a bug? Otherwise I will have to put in a redirect, but I 
> > feel
> > that is a bad idea.
>
>       Hi,
> the caldav:// URL is only a help to applications to distinguish what
> to do with it, how to interpret it. It is always changed into http://
> or https:// in the case of caldav://. The change in more recent
> evolution (not only 3.16.4) is that it replaces the caldav:// with
> what it uses. If you toggle the "Use secure connection" below the URL
> it'll be changes into https://.
>
> I do not know how your server is setup, maybe you force https://, but
>  http:// is used instead, thus I would try that, but otherwise do not
> be confused with the caldav:// replacement, it's all fine.
>
> By the way, did you fill also a username in the calendar properties? 
> I
> think the 405 error is returned for non-authenticated requests, while
> evolution knows that you want to authenticate only based on the
> username being filled.
>       Bye,
>       Milan

Ah, this was enlightening! 
I looked at my old keychain and I have both a username and a password
for my calendar. Is there a password field somewhere?

Cameron