Bug 696094

Summary: Evolution can't connect to WebDAV address book
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Oded Arbel <oded>
Component: evolutionAssignee: Matthew Barnes <mbarnes>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 14CC: lucilanga, mbarnes, mcrha
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Description Oded Arbel 2011-04-13 09:08:01 UTC
Description of problem:
When trying to add a WebDAV address book (hosted on a Zimbra server), Evolution complains that: This query did not complete successfully. PROPFIND on webdav failed with HTTP status 405

The address book is still listed by is not working - it does not show any entries and I can't create new entries in it.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
evolution-2.32.2-1.fc14.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Have an address book available on a Zimbra server (tests accounts are available from my server if you need them).
2. Try to add a WebDAV address book to Evolution using the URL http://server-adderss/dav/user@domain/Contacts/
  
Actual results:
Evolution will not list contacts and complains about HTTP status code 405 (invalid method)

Expected results:
The contacts from the server's address book should be listed

Additional info:
I've tried to reproduce the HTTP request that (I believe) Evolution is trying to make using
curl -u 'user@domain:password' -X 'PROPFIND' 'http://server-address/dav/user@domain/Contacts/'
And I get a 207 response, so I believe that should work. I'm not sure what query evolution is running, but its obviously not this URL.

I've also have set up the same address book in Fedora 15 and Ubuntu 10.10 and they both work fine.

Comment 1 Milan Crha 2011-04-14 05:13:12 UTC
Thanks for a bug report. Does it claim the same error when you try with https:// instead of http://? There is an upstream bug [1], which claims that the WebDAV address book was using only https, and it was fixed later on. The other difference between 2.32.2 and 3.0.0 is from an upstream bug [2], but you are not using ports in your server address probably, so I think it's closer to [1].

[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=639469
[2] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=633332

Comment 2 Oded Arbel 2011-06-20 07:45:23 UTC
Unfortunately, my Zimbra server is not configured to work in HTTPS, so I can't test it at this point.

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