Re: [DAViCal-general] davical delivering strange responses to queries

[Andrew M. <an...@mo...>]

On Wed, 2010-01-13 at 15:42 +0100, Markus Hansen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> we have deployed a DAViCal/Lightning environment in a small office with 
> about 40 people. We are still hunting down some curiosities and I hope 
> it is ok to ask for help on this list.
> 
> For our main office, we have put some php together so they have an easy 
> overview of who is in house, who is busy ... this script uses wget to 
> get the ics files from davical via http, then displays a table with red 
> or blue bars next to the names.
> 
> Here comes the strange stuff:
> - One collection (/user3/home/) works well with latest 
> Thunderbird/Lightning CalDAV requests, but produces an HTTP Error 500 
> when the ics is requested. There is nothing in the error.log from apache 
> to hint me where to look for a reason. Works well with all other 
> calendars and did work well with the same calendar last week. The php 
> did not change since then, but new events have been added to said calendar.
> 
> - The names of the people are taken from the X-WR-CALNAME: field from 
> the ics. In two cases, the X-WR-CALNAME: field does not contain the 
> names of the people. In one case, there is just the string "home", in 
> the other case, an "e" is added to the name. I have looked into the 
> database, but could not find the terms "home" or the name with the added 
> "e". Retrieving the same ics files with a browser contains the same 
> strange strings in X-WR-CALNAME:.

The X-WR-CALNAME propery in the .ics representation is taken from the
dav_displayname column of the collection table in the database. This is
populated in various ways, generally when the collection is created,
although some CalDAV clients (e.g. Apple's iCal) will let you edit it.


> Oh, and: Many many thanks for DAViCal. As of now, you have saved me from 
> having to deal with an Exchange/Outlook environment. :-)

Thanks :-)


> BTW: I would love if the admin web interface would display a version 
> string somewhere.

In 0.9.8 there is a new screen which does display this information, but
the move in the direction of greater web-side upgradiness is only just
started :-)

Cheers,
					Andrew.

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