[CalendarServer-users] Older iCal works...sometimes

[Cyrus Daboo]

Hi Emil,

--On October 28, 2007 6:03:45 PM +0100 Emil Lundberg 
<Emil.Lundberg at bmc.uu.se> wrote:

> Vice-versa, and perhaps more importantly; any calendar created by iCal 3
> through CalDAV will not be viewable by older, WebDAV-based clients.
>
> Hopefully, this little exercise has not been entirely confusing... :-)
>

Actually that is not quite right. Our server will return an entire .ics 
file if you do a GET on the CalDAV calendar collection. e.g. if you point 
your WebDAV calendar client to /calendars/users/cdaboo/calendar on the 
server (using your own user id and a valid calendar name) you should be 
able to "Subscribe" to the calendar. You won't be able to "publish" to that 
calendar, but if all you want is read-only access then that will work.

Note, however, that this is a "private" extension to CalDAV - there is no 
guarantee it will always work that way, though there isn't any obvious 
reason why it would change.

Several other CalDAV servers have implemented the same behavior as the 
ability to subscribe like this is handy to support existing web-calendar 
clients.

-- 
Cyrus Daboo