[chandler-users] Question about read only access to webdav version of caldav collection in cosmo

[Randy Letness]

Luka Bodrozic wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a question about publishing and sharing collections. I did some 
> searching and couldn't find the answer. Pardon if this question has 
> already been asked.
>
> I am using ical 3.0 to connect to the chandler hub. That works fine, 
> and I'm quite happy on that end.
>
> My fiancee is using ical 2.0. I have successfully gotten her 
> subscribed to one of my caldav collections (using the info button on 
> the hub's web interface, and selecting ical from the dropdown). To do 
> this though, she needs to know my account password on the hub. Fine 
> for her, but I recently wanted to share a different collection with a 
> person with whom I don't care to share my hub password.
>
> I tried selecting the collection in question in the hub's account 
> browser and creating a read only ticket, but the dav link that results 
> is not in a format that ical can parse.
>
> Is there a way for me to get a read only, ical friendly, subscribable, 
> webdav ics link for a caldav collection? Seems it's really close, as I 
> can do all of that (except the read only part) from the hub currently. 
> Am I missing something?

After you create a read-only ticket, the ical url you want is the same 
as the dav link, but replace 'dav' with 'webcal'.  This isn't very 
obvious and should be added to the list of links.

-Randy