Hi Douglas,
(DCS folks, feel free to correct me if I am mistaken)
DCS at its core is a WebDAV server (basically HTTP with r/w
capabilities), allowing any user to upload files (not
necessarily .ics/iCalendar files) to a any permitted directory using
the proper credentials. This can also be accomplished using the DAV
extension to a standard Apache httpd web service.
While it is entirely possible to allow iCal 2 (or Outlook 2007,
Windows Vista Calendar, Evolution, etc) clients to publish and
subscribe to calendars residing in the DCS collection space, CalDAV-
aware clients (such as iCal 3, SunBird/Lightning or Mulberry) will
never be able to access these directly through their CalDAV accounts.
Rather they will have to subscribe/publish to them as they would any
other web-calendar, and all the CalDAV-specific functionality
(delegations, acl, free-busy, true server-based calendars, etc) will
be lost.
Basically, you will have to decide what level of functionality you
are aiming for; if all you need is to publish/subscribe to web
calendars, you just require a WebDAV server (even Exchange has some
support for this, IIRC). Taking the CalDAV route promises much more
but has the downside of being a work in progress and also limits your
current choice in clients. This is expected change rather rapidly
however :-)
best,
/Emil
28 okt 2007 kl. 07.26 skrev Douglas O'Connor:
Hello again,
I have found that I can still publish to the DCS with the older
10.4 iCal (v2.0), which the online documentation says is not
compatible, as long as it is done in the root directory and with
the admin/admin uid/pwd. For example, publishing to http://
www.servername.edu:8008/ with admin/admin is no problem. It has a
problem unpublishing, but the ability to publish and subscribe is
there for older versions of iCal.
I am wondering if, since it is possible for this to happen on the
root dir with the admin guid, can I somehow config DCS to let it
happen across the server, in other dir structures? Is there a
reason why I wouldn't want this? Normally when I try this, I get:
Calendar data does not conform to CalDAV requirements: METHOD
property is not allowed in CalDAV iCalendar data. But it seems
important that servers be somewhat backwards compatible, so that
not everybody has to go out and buy new software in order to take
advantage. Additionally, why wouldn't I receive the same error
message as an admin/admin publishing to the root dir?
Any ideas would be welcome, thank you all very much for helping out.
-Doug
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