[kronolith] CalDAV client fails with 401 Authentication error

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Aria Bamdad <aria at bsc.gwu.edu>:

> Quoting Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:
>
>> On 4. Juni 2014 21:11:28 MESZ, Aria Bamdad <aria at bsc.gwu.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>> SOLVED!
>>>
>>> I had coded (for security) the following two statements in a PHP file:
>>>
>>> unset($_SERVER['AUTH_PASSWORD']);
>>> unset($_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_PW']);
>>>
>>> that would get executed via an apache auto_prepend_file, example:
>>>
>>> <IfModule mod_php5.c>
>>> php_admin_value auto_prepend_file
>>> /etc/apache2/php_auto_prepend_file.php
>>> </IfModule>
>>>
>>>
>>> This would disable the availability of the user entered password with
>>> PHP code that is executed by apache.  However, it seems that the
>>> rpc.php would require this in order to authenticate the DAV client.
>>>
>>> Once I removed this.  Everything seems to work.
>>>
>>> What I don't understand is how is Funombol sync client able to
>>> authenticate with the above code in place.
>>>
>>> Aria
>>>
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>>
>> SyncML doesn't use httpbasic authentication.
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>
> Thanks Jan.  If it doesn't then I am not sure why the above change  
> fixes the problem.  All I removed were there instructions above.   
> Basically, I was clearing the values of the two server variables  
> before apache runs the PHP script.  If I put them back, it stops  
> authenticating, gets a 401 and I see no IMAP authentication happen.   
> If I remove them, it works.

SyncML != CalDAV

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