[Tickets #11624] Re: ActiveSync Autodiscovery for Apple iOS devices (easy to fix)

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Ticket-URL: http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/11624
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  Ticket           | 11624
  Aktualisiert Von | torben at dannhauer.info
  Zusammenfassung  | ActiveSync Autodiscovery for Apple iOS devices (easy to
                   | fix)
  Warteschlange    | Horde Framework Packages
  Version          | Git master
  Typ              | Bug
  Status           | Resolved
  Priorität        | 1. Low
  Milestone        |
  Patch            | 1
  Zuständige       | Michael Rubinsky
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torben at dannhauer.info (2012-11-05 14:51) hat geschrieben:

>> The ActiveSync AutoDiscovery does no work for iOS (iOS 6.0.1) because
>> the REQUEST_URI is checked case sensitive for
>> "autodiscover/autodiscover.xml" while iOS uses the URI
>> "Autodiscover/Autodiscover.xml"
>
> Well, iOS is plain wrong then. Then documentation *clearly* states  
> that the URL is all lowercase.  Then again, it's not a big surprise  
> the Apple has screwed up a communication protocol.
>
> Nevertheless, I've added the case insensitive matching.
>

I agree, apple is very careless regarding some protocols. Besides this  
bug you fixed, it has also some other major flaws regarding the  
exchange autodiscover protocol: It DOES obey a redirect DNS entry, but  
it does not restart the autodiscover with the new URL in a clean way:  
It still compares the old URL with the new URL SSL cert which leads to  
an invalid SSL cert warning. Lots of sysadmins have trouble  
integrating iOS devices....
I assume this bug happens because MS is not as case sensitive as other  
OS are and they have tested it with a MS exchange server.

Thanks for fixing this issue anyway!