Remote calendar that requires basic authentication

[Flyen]

Hi,
I'm having trouble using a remote icalendar with zimbra. The problem is that access to the calendar requires the client to authenticate itself using Apache's basic authentication.

I get this error:
"Error parsing calendar"

I can access the calendar with no problems when the authentication requirement is removed.

The ical file is being served by subversion, btw. Other clients such as KOrganizer can read/write to the file successfully even when authentication is on.

Just wanted to alert the developers to this.

[KevinH]

Yes this will be fixed in the next release. URL's can now include a user/pass like

http://userass@somehost.com/ical.ics

[Flyen]

Is there a way of doing it so that the user/pass doesn't get sent in cleartext? A prompt like the internet browsers do?

My impression of https is that the data sent gets encrypted but not the URI itself.

Another question: is the ical file downloaded by the zimbra server or by the client's browser?

Thanks for everything.

[KevinH]

You will get prompted if you just go to the .ics file in a browser. You just need to embed the user/pass for an application or program to access the ical data. The ics is pulled by the server and cached.

[Flyen]

Which release was this going to be fixed in? I just tried 3.1.0_GA_279, and I still get the same "Error parsing calendar."

[KevinH]

What URL did you try. PM the url to me if you'd like.