[CalendarServer-users] Experimenting with 2.4 on Linux

[John Murdie]

On Fri, 2010-04-09 at 19:16 +0100, John Murdie wrote:
> ...
> 
> Evolution 2.62.2 seems fine as "user01" (or anyone else), but with
> Sunbird 1.0b1 (though Sunbird is obsolescent) and also in Thunderbird
> 3.0.4 with Lightning 1.0b1, I've fallen foul of Bug 523555 - "Cannot add
> CalDAV calendar via HTTPS if server has invalid/self-signed certificate"
> - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=523555 - fixed in
> development code on the 27th March, apparently.
> ...

I took the work-around suggested in the discussion list of that bug -
which was to import the certificate and mark it as trusted. Re-loading
the calendar causes Thunderbird/Lightning's
exclamation-mark-in-a-yellow-triangle to go away, giving one hope that
everything is going to work. Alas, when it was started,
Thunderbird/Lightning wrote:

Warning: There has been an error reading data for calendar: intranet
user01.  However, this error is believed to be minor, so the program
will attempt to continue. Error code: READ_FAILED. Description: 
Warning: There has been an error reading data for calendar: intranet
user01.  However, this error is believed to be minor, so the program
will attempt to continue. Error code: DAV_NOT_DAV. Description: The
resource at https://mydomain.tld:8443/calendars/users/user01 is either
not a DAV collection or not available

to the terminal from which I started it. Odd that Evolution should work
under these circumstances, but that Thunderbird/Lightning on Linux and
iCal 4.0.2 (the latest) on Mac OS X 10.6 should not.

John A. Murdie