Right.
There should be some setting/parameter corresponding to the Thunderbird plugin, which
indicates /how/ it is trying to write files to the server.
In Options..Advanced..Config Editor ?
I find some traces there in my Thunderbird setup, of parameters starting with
"SyncKolab".. (That may be something else though)
The point which several people were trying to make here is :
Any "sane" webserver setup will never allow a user to /upload/ files to the server, just
by specifying their URL. That is because it is potentially a very big security hole.
(One generally does not want the first miscreant around to deface one's server by loading
his own pages or applications)
It is /possible/ to allow this (and there are even special HTTP commands to do that), but
you need to add something to the server, in terms of additional modules to handle such
uploads, and a special (and careful) configuration to go with it.
It is not sufficient to just put the files somewhere where they can be seen and retrieved
by a browser, and make them writeable. Thankfully.
(Note that all this is not specific to Tomcat. Any reasonable webserver is like
that.)
One such fairly standard server add-on, in the case of Tomcat, is the DAV application. It
is available on the Tomcat website, but not as part of the standard download (I think),
and it is certainly not installed by default.
It is not the only way, and maybe this particular plugin expects the webserver to run an
application which comes along with the plugin. But again, you'd need to install it on the
server, it will not be there by default.
In any case, one would expect, either in the plugin documentation or in the parameters
somwhere on the client, to find a hint as to how the file upload to the server is supposed
to happen.
Dean Hoover wrote:
Fair enough, Chuck.
I don't know exactly what writes the file, but since we are using the
Lightning add-on from Thunderbird, I would assume that Lightning is doing
the work.
As far as how it used to work, everyone would read from the .ics calendar on
the old server from Lightning via a web link. Those with the proper access
were able to write to it for adding/updating/deleting calendar entries.
Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the feedback. It seems that this is a
little more involved than I thought, which is fine. I see there are
open-source alternatives, so I will pursue those.
It's all good. Thanks again.
Dean
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 9:47 AM, Caldarale, Charles R <
chuck.caldar...@unisys.com> wrote:
From: Dean Hoover [mailto:kb7...@gmail.com]
Subject: Re: Using calendar .ics files over Tomcat 5.5
We are not using DAV, just simple iCalendar (.ics) files.
But what _writes_ the files? Unless you have your own servlet to do this,
or use DAV or a similar file upload mechanism, nothing cause an update of
data on the server.
It was running on an old Win2k server using an even
older Apache web service before.
Perhaps if you explained more fully how the prior mechanism worked, we
could suggest an alternative for use with Tomcat. So far, we've really got
nothing to go on.
- Chuck
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