[horde] Troubleshooting CalDav

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Brian Spraker <spraker at yahoo.com>:

> From: Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>
>  To: horde at lists.horde.org
>  Sent: Friday, March 4, 2016 3:49 AM
>  Subject: Re: [horde] Troubleshooting CalDav
>
>
> Zitat von Brian Spraker <spraker at yahoo.com>:
>
>> Using GroupWare 5.2.12.
>>
>> Attempting to connect a Thunderbird mail client to CalDAV.
>> Went into the Share settings in Horde to get the CalDAV Subscription 
>> URL.Entered this into Thunderbird as  Network Calendar under the 
>> CalDAV option.Popup box asked for the username and password for the 
>> user, which was entered.Thunderbird says that the calendar is 
>> 'momentarily unavailable'.Looking at the server logs, I see these 
>> three connections:
>> PROPFIND <URL> HTTP/1.1 207 1359OPTIONS <URL> HTTP/1.1 200 
>> 826PROPFIND <URL> HTTP/1.1 500 775
>> So an internal server error seems to be occurring as the last 
>> connection and it fails.  Nothing in the horde log.
>> I then took the WebDAV/iCS Subscription URL and put it into my web 
>> browser.  XML file came up saying permission is denied.
>> Went to the Sharing settings of the calendar and turned on sharing 
>> to be public (although I really don't like that idea).  Refreshed 
>> that WebDAV/iCS link and it still said permission denied.  Sharing 
>> was then turned back off.
>> Brian S.
>
> Make sure that you copied the URL from the user that you shared the 
> calendar with, not from the user that shared the calendar. And of 
> course make sure to use the credentials in Thunderbird of the user 
> that you shared with too.
>
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> I believe the problem has been partially fixed.  I now get prompted  
> to download the ICS file if I put in the WebDAV/iCS link in a web  
> browser.  Upon opening, the iCS file does have all of the items in it.
> I no longer have the message in Thunderbird saying that the calendar  
> is momentarily unavailable.  However, the CalDAV link doesn't appear  
> to be loading anything into Thunderbird; the calendar is empty in  
> Thunderbird.
>
> The permission denied issue - the "share_owner" row in the  
> kronolith_shares table had a capital letter to start off.  This has  
> been an issue with other customers in the past where they login and  
> get 'permission denied' when trying to look at their calendars.  If  
> their username is any different when they login versus what shows in  
> the database case-sensitive wise, it doesn't work.
> Is there any 'long term' fix for ensuring that Horde doesn't check  
> the case sensitive username?

No, because it's your responsibility to either have a case-sensitive  
authentication backend, or to normalize user names.

That being said, Horde 6 will normalize user names by default, with a  
setting to turn normalization off.

-- 
Jan Schneider
The Horde Project
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