Has anyone tried to use the iCal feeds under Evolution?  I’ve tried both calendar and task list support but nothing shows up either way.

If nobody else tests this, I’ll try to remember to fire up Evolution on my sparc and give it a shot.

emory - 16 August 2006 08:41 PM

If nobody else tests this, I’ll try to remember to fire up Evolution on my sparc and give it a shot.

I am beginning to suspect that Sun’s Evolution binary is badly broken.

I can read email with it fine, but attempts to use the Calendar results in “Cannot display this folder”.

So I cannot test.  I’m not about to go rebuild a copy, but I’ll see if there is a more complete/fixed version on the usual sites.

Some more info, in case anyone cares;

Adding the live feed works in neither the calendar or task list.  If you just download the contents of the feed (e.g., ‘curl -o test.vcf <Feed URL>’), and try to import it in the calendar, nothing happends.  However, if you try to import the file into a local task list, the tasks show up. 

I’ll see if I can bug some Evolution developers and see why the live feed doesn’t work but the manual import does.  I’ll also note that just grabbing the TCP stream as it tries to grab the live feed, saving that, then importing the resulting file also works, so it’s not like there is some weird output from Rails that Evo doesn’t like.

Quick reply to myself - I just found an VTODO feed that does work correctly for me:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?query=evolution vtodo&remaction;=&&ctype;=ics

The big difference between that and the one from Tracks is the Content-Type HTTP header—Tracks spits out ‘Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8’ but that Bugzilla link gives ‘Content-Type: text/calendar; charset=UTF-8’ (which I’m guessing is more correct).  Does Rails give enough control in order to set the headers correctly?  I’ll open this as a bug, shortly.

UPDATE - nevermind, found out where to change that, but it’s still choking =(  I’ll keep poking

And to bring everything to a close - http://dev.rousette.org.uk/ticket/367 contains a patch to add UID to the iCal feed, which is required by the RFC and by Evolution.