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

Emil Lundberg Emil.Lundberg at bmc.uu.se
Sun Oct 28 10:59:29 PDT 2007


>> 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

Neat, I wasn't aware of that. Coupled with the fact that it's  
possible to publish/subscribe to a calendar located at e.g. / 
calendars/users/cdaboo/old_calendar.ics, I guess this is about as  
much legacy support as one could ask for.

/Emil



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