[Dev] Apple iCal & cosmo-demo

[Grant Baillie]

On Mar 2, 2006, at 13:59 , Morgen Sagen wrote:

> I just discovered that Apple iCal doesn't support HTTPS, which  
> means it won't work with our https://cosmo-demo.osafoundation.org/  
> server.  I guess when we tested this earlier we weren't using HTTPS  
> (or else iCal stopped supporting HTTPS).  Is this something we  
> should address?  It's a shame to go through all this work to allow  
> non-Chandler clients to interoperate with us, and then have it not  
> work.
>
> Or am I the only one having trouble subscribing to a cosmo-demo  
> collection with my iCal?

It doesn't work for me, either, on 10.4.4. Poking around in Google,  
it seems we're not the only ones. It looks as if they had some  
certificate-related problems with https in the past, so maybe that's  
why it got turned off.

There's a horrible nasty workaround (involving stunnel) here:

<http://rulink.rutgers.edu/macical.html>

--Grant