[horde] CalDAV/CardDAV synchronization

Wed May 31 01:15:36 UTC 2017

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

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

Just set it to inactive in backends[.local].php

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