[horde] CalDAV/CardDAV synchronization

[Benedikt Bäumle]

> Am 29.05.2017 um 22:10 schrieb Michael J Rubinsky <mrubinsk at horde.org>:
> 
> 
> Quoting Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:
> 
>> Please don't top-post.
>> 
>> Zitat von Benedikt Bäumle <baeumle at dbvis.inf.uni-konstanz.de>:
>> 
>>> Quoting Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:
>>> 
>>>> Zitat von Benedikt Bäumle <baeumle at dbvis.inf.uni-konstanz.de>:
>>>> 
>>>>> Dear Horde-Team,
>>>>> 
>>>>> we have troubles using the CardDAV implementations.
>>>>> 
>>>>> We are not able to sync with the Apple Address Book app ( currently tested on mac OS Sierra ( 10.12.2 ) with Address Book App Version 10.0 ).
>>>>> 
>>>>> From your wiki site I could find the information that it should work with the principles URL:
>>>>> 
>>>>> https://host.de/rpc.php/principals/user
>>>>> 
>>>>> I was able to connect an account with this URL, but the contacts did not show up. Also by using the URL for the address book itself:
>>>>> 
>>>>> https://host.de/rpc.php/addressbooks/user/contacts-aksjklasjdkljaskldjklasjdkljalk/
>>>>> 
>>>>> Both did not give me an error but were syncing nothing.
>>>>> 
>>>>> The logs say the following:
>>>>> 0.0.0.0 - - [23/May/2017:12:43:35 +0200] "PROPFIND /rpc.php/addressbooks/user/contacts~asndjKJASKJJKFJKASB[1] HTTP/1.1" 401 4185 "-" "Mac OS X/10.12.2 (16C67) AddressBook/1756.14.6"
>>>>> 0.0.0.0 - user [23/May/2017:12:43:35 +0200] "PROPFIND /rpc.php/addressbooks/user/contacts~asndjKJASKJJKFJKASB[1] HTTP/1.1" 207 1804 "-" "Mac OS X/10.12.2 (16C67) AddressBook/1756.14.6"
>>>>> 0.0.0.0 - - [23/May/2017:12:43:35 +0200] "OPTIONS /rpc.php/principals/user/[2] HTTP/1.1" 401 1165 "-" "Mac OS X/10.12.2 (16C67) AddressBook/1756.14.6"
>>>>> 0.0.0.0 - user [23/May/2017:12:43:35 +0200] "OPTIONS /rpc.php/principals/user/[2] HTTP/1.1" 200 1531 "-" "Mac OS X/10.12.2 (16C67) AddressBook/1756.14.6"
>>>> 
>>>> These look just fine.
>>>> 
>>>>> In our apache config file we also added the redirect for autodiscovery which does not change anything:
>>>>> 
>>>>> RedirectPermanent /.well-known/carddav /rpc.php
>>>>> 
>>>>> If I take a look into the web interface under https://host.de/rpc.php/principals/baeumle I just find an empty directory. Is it supposed to be empty?
>>>> 
>>>> Yes, it only contains meta data.
>>>> 
>>>>> Did we miss something?
>>>>> 
>>>>> If you need additional information please let me know. Thank you a lot in advance!
>>>>> 
>>>>> Greetings,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Benedikt
>>>> 
>>>> There have been some problems with the Mac address book, most notably with adding new contacts though. Did you check the mailing list archives?
>>>> 
>>> I could not find something similar in the mailing list archives.
>>> 
>>> I got a free trial of the apps BusyCal and BusyContacts, both were able to fetch the data from a first sync ( using the principles URL ). I was also able to create and delete events/contacts on the client side and sync the changes afterwards. However creating/deleting events/contacts on the server side and syncing the changes afterwards was not possible. They just do not appear.
>>> 
>>> Concerning BusyCal it is not a problem for me as the standard calendar app on my mac is working with the horde CalDAV implementation. But the problem with the Address Book app remains...
>>> 
>>> Do you have the possibility to check if you are able to reproduce the problem I mentioned in the first mail?
>>> 
>>> Our horde installation is currently installed with version 5.2.20.
>> 
>> I don't have a Mac available at the moment unfortunately.
> 
> I can verify this behavior.
> 
> Tracing with Wireshark, I see the OPTIONS and PROPFIND requests. The latter is even responded to with a MULTI-STATUS response, but the actual application does not show the address book.

Thank you for checking out!

The contact app on my mac is giving me the following logs. ( log file attached ). There are some errors at the beginning…but I can not really figure out what it means. Do you get some insights from it?
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