[Kolab-devel] Correct Free/Busy URL for Outlook

Steffen Hansen steffen at klaralvdalens-datakonsult.se
Mon Apr 11 15:10:56 CEST 2005


On Monday 11 April 2005 15:02, Joon Radley wrote:
> Hi Michel,
>
> Is there a way to disable or avoid the need for a user name and
> password as in the Free Busy URL shown below? This URL transmits the
> password over an unencrypted channel.

Hi Joon. 

Please use https instead. If you still want to get around the 
authentication part, please go to the services page in the webgui and 
check the "Allow unauthenticated downloading of Free/Busy information" 
option.

regards
Steffen

> Best regards
>
> Joon Radley
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: kolab-devel-bounces at kolab.org
> > [mailto:kolab-devel-bounces at kolab.org] On Behalf Of Michel
> > Boyer de la Giroday
> > Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 2:15 PM
> > To: Kolab development coordination
> > Subject: Re: [Kolab-devel] Correct Free/Busy URL for Outlook
> >
> > Hi Henning,
> >
> > On Monday 11 April 2005 13:46, Henning Holtschneider wrote:
> > > I'm currently experimenting with Kolab 2 Beta 4 and Toltec
> >
> > Connector
> >
> > > 2.0
> > > RC1 (with Outlook 2003). I'm stuck with the correct URL syntax to
> > > retrieve other people's free/busy list.
> > > There is a document called doc2.swx linked from
> > > http://wiki.kolab.org/index.php/Toltec_Connector which
> >
> > explains how to
> >
> > > set up Outlook 2003. It reads "In the 'Internet Free/Busy'
> >
> > section of
> >
> > > the same dialog, enter the correspondent URL for the
> >
> > “Search location”
> >
> > > as shown in the screen shot below:"
> > > Unfortunately, the screenshot shows only parts of the URL the
> > > text refers to. Is the URL syntax so secret that it cannot be
> >
> > written down :-/ ?
> >
> > yes that has to be completed, I will add some line in the
> > doc. to make it better (clear) you could try:
> > http://<userName>%40:<passwd>@%SERVER%/freebusy/%NAME%@%SERVER%.ifb
> >
> > if <Username> contains @ replace it with %40
> > e.g: <userName> = michel at giroday.dyndns.org
> >        <passwd> = michel
> > http://michel%40giroday.dyndns.org:michel@%SERVER%/freebusy/%N
> > AME%@%SERVER
> > %.ifb
> >
> > I hope this help
> > Michel
> >
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