[Cosmo-dev] New user, perplexed: CalDAV interface with Cosmo

[Don Levey]

On Sat, 2006-05-27 at 13:12 -0700, Mikeal Rogers wrote:
> Out main developer is on vacation for a few days so I'll try to  
> answer as much of your questions as I can.
> 
> -Mikeal
> 
I appreciate this - thank you!


> We've been working with some of the evolution developers on interop  
> issues between evolution and cosmo. I can't remember the status of  
> this, Brian will have to comment on it when he gets back. Evolution  
> added CalDAV support recently so they may not be supporting the  
> entire spec just yet.
> 
OK, I'll keep that in mind.  

> >
> > Unfortunately, I can't seem to get the interface going.  I have  
> > installed
> > the OSAF bundle (0.3) and am able to login as root, and to create user
> > accounts and login.  I'm creating a 'shared' user for the purpose  
> > of the
> > shared calendar.  I have noticed a few problems:
> >
> > * Setting the URL in Evolution as caldav://FQDN:port/cosmo/home/shared
> > doesn't allow me to enter/view anything (but then there's nothing  
> > to view
> > yet).  Specifying a filename at the end of that URL doesn't seem to  
> > help.
> > What I seem to get in the access.log are 401, 409 and 411 errors.
> 
> This may be somewhere that we either haven't finished Evolution  
> interop, or Evolution doesn't fully support MKCALENDAR yet.
> 
> My suggestion would be to download our experimentally usable desktop  
> client, chandler (http://chandler.osafoundation.org/), add a "Sharing  
> Account" that points to your server and share one calendar, even if  
> it's empty. Then use the calendar resource URL (it should be cosmo/ 
> home/user/calendarName/ , you can check the cosmo log to make sure)  
> in Evolution.
> 
Alright, I'll try to do that later tonight and check back.


> There are two bundles, one with Scooby0.1-release and one with  
> Scooby0.2-trunk, although we are very proud of scooby 0.2, it's very  
> pretty :), it isn't released yet and hasn't gone through a QA cycle.
> 
The bundle I got was 3.0.1, which seems to have scooby 0.1?

> You might also wanna try disabling your browser cache, I've found  
> that quite helpful with these login issues previously.
>
> Although I would use Chandler to create the calendar instead of  
> scooby, see below.
> 
I'll let you know how that happens.  Thanks!
 -Don