Vice-versa, and perhaps more importantly; any calendar created by iCal 3 through CalDAV will not be viewable by older, WebDAV-based clients.

Hopefully, this little exercise has not been entirely confusing... :-)

E

28 okt 2007 kl. 14.10 skrev Emil Lundberg:

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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