[horde] CalDAV/CardDAV synchronization

Tue May 30 21:16:44 UTC 2017

Am 30.05.2017 21:37 schrieb Michael J Rubinsky <mrubinsk at horde.org>:
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>
> 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. 

How? As described here: 
http://horde.horde.narkive.com/1TikRGIC/remove-favourite-recepients

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