[horde] CalDAV/CardDAV synchronization

[Michael J Rubinsky]

Quoting Benedikt Bäumle <baeumle at dbvis.inf.uni-konstanz.de>:

>> 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…

Those are Cocoa errors from the OS, nothing you can do about those,  
but shouldn't be affecting the operation of the app.

It shows the "Favorites" address book attempting to be synchronized.  
Try temporarily disabling that address book to see if it causes your  
main address book to sync.

but I can not
> really figure out what it means. Do you get some insights from it?



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