Google Calendar Sync

[hchan]

I'm having trouble sharing a public calendar from Zimbra to Google. I was able to get an initial calendar out and displayed on Google but when a new event is added on the Zimbra side, it isn't visible on Google. What is going on here? Am I missing something?

[dljordaneku]

Originally Posted by hchan

I'm having trouble sharing a public calendar from Zimbra to Google. I was able to get an initial calendar out and displayed on Google but when a new event is added on the Zimbra side, it isn't visible on Google. What is going on here? Am I missing something?

No. If you go back and look at my earlier post you will see that I mentioned that. I have seen where it will take about a day and it will finally update. If I remember right, you can vote for this bug for them to fix that issue so it will update more often.

dj

[hba]

I use this as a quick and crude workaround to use a Zimbra calendar with a self-signed SSL certificate and HTTP authentication in Google Calendar:

<?php
header('Content-Type: text/calendar; charset=utf-8');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="calendar.ics"; ');
print file_get_contents("https://myuser:mypass@myserver/zimbra/home/myuser/calendar.ics");
?>

[emanaton]

Originally Posted by hba

I use this as a quick and crude workaround to use a Zimbra calendar with a self-signed SSL certificate and HTTP authentication in Google Calendar:

<?php
header('Content-Type: text/calendar; charset=utf-8');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="calendar.ics"; ');
print file_get_contents("https://myuser:mypass@myserver/zimbra/home/myuser/calendar.ics");
?>

Very nice! Elegant, yet hackish - I love it. For myself, I need to access several different calendars on a server, so added a get variable for the name thusly:

<?php
header('Content-Type: text/calendar; charset=utf-8');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="calendar.ics"; ');
print file_get_contents("https://myuser:mypass@myserver/zimbra/home/".$_GET['user']."/calendar.ics");
?>

... and set the calendar URL in google like:

http://my.private.com/ical.php?user=joeuser

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[fultonj]

I found that google calendar doesn't give the "couldn't fetch URL" error, if you substitute "http://" with "webcal://" and then remove the "?fmt=ics". I.e.

webcal://user%40server.comasswd@my.zimbra.server.com/path/

I found that Zimbra insisted that the external user be an email address so the %40 work around also had to be used. The above works well on Apple iCal. Google accepts it, but now I'm waiting for my content. If Google accepts it, then that should make debugging easier. I'm using a valid cert on my Zimbra server.