viewing ICS calendar in outlook 2007

[Gunnar Wrobel]

Quoting Gavin McCullagh <gavin.mccullagh at gcd.ie>:

> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 18 Feb 2010, Gavin McCullagh wrote:
>
>> we can't work out how to get Outlook 2007 to view ICS calendars -- it
>> appears to actually try the HTTP request, but gives up when asked for
>> authentication if we point it at:
>>          
>> https://<server>/client/rpc.php/kronolith/<emailaddress>/<emailaddress>.ics
>>
>> As an experiment, we tried:
>>          
>> https://<username>:<password>@<server>/client/rpc.php/kronolith/<emailaddress>/<emailaddress>.ics
>
> We found another way to do this in Outlook which works.
>
>  - Right click on a calendar and click "publish to calendar server"
>  - select webdav calendar.
>  - Add this rewrite rule to apache config:
> 	RewriteRule rpc.php/kronolith/(.*?)/(.*?)_Calendar\.ics$  
> rpc.php/kronolith/$1/$1.ics [L]
>
> This allows Outlook to read the remote Calendar.  However, it can't
> actually publish to it.

Do you see any errors in the logs on the server side when trying to publish?

Cheers,

Gunnar

> Does anyone know of a solution to this?  It would
> be great to be able to point people at a different calendar/email client,
> but that's not practical right now.
>
> Gavin
>
>
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