After EA3 CalDAV Support (Shared Calendars)

[jols]

I know we have WebDAV a.k.a. WebDISK with v11, but what about CalDAV support? Possible? If so, how? Anyone?

Thanks.

[hm2k]

We now support WebDAV, can we also support CalDAV? It's an extension of WebDAV as is described as follows:

Calendaring Extensions to WebDAV, or CalDAV, is an Internet standard allowing a client to access scheduling information on a remote server. It extends WebDAV (HTTP-based protocol for data manipulation) specification and uses iCalendar format for the data.

- From CalDAV - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[hm2k]

I added a feature request here: http://forums.cpanel.net/f145/caldav...st-151841.html

[hm2k]

It seems that iCalendar over WebDAV is not the same as CalDAV.

From my understanding it would require a separate server implementation, conveniently there is a list here:

CalDAV Servers


mod_caldav:

An Apache module implementation of the RFC 4791 (CalDAV) which defines extensions to the (WebDAV) protocol to specify a standard way of accessing, managing, and sharing calendaring and scheduling information based on the iCalendar format.

See: mod_caldav | Get mod_caldav at SourceForge.net

[hm2k]

CalDAV is ideal to use with software such as Mozilla Thunderbird's Calendar:

To serve shared calendars from your own server machine, the best way is to install a service specifically designed to manage calendars, typically using a protocol such as CalDAV, or WCAP. Both open source and commercially supported calendar service software packages are available.

From: Calendar - Frequently Asked Questions

[hm2k]

I'm not the only one who wants this feature, there are many others who have asked for or mentioned such a feature:

http://forums.cpanel.net/f5/caldav-s...ver-75165.html
Publishing iCal calender - A Small Orange Forums
Lightning with cPanel Web Disk • mozillaZine Forums
Hosted Calendar Supporting Caldav

Are you with us?

[cPanelDon]

I'm not the only one who wants this feature, there are many others who have asked for or mentioned such a feature:

CalDAV support from cPanel server? - cPanel Forums
Publishing iCal calender - A Small Orange Forums
Lightning with cPanel Web Disk • mozillaZine Forums
Hosted Calendar Supporting Caldav

Are you with us?

We are here and listening. Thank you for bringing the older thread to attention; I have merged it with your feature request to help centralize the discussion.

I would allow additional time for more people to respond and add feedback; depending on the popularity of individual requests it may just be a matter of time until more users realize added value in the potential of each enhancement request, or realize how it may benefit their unique offering of services.

[cPanelDon]

I have revised the thread title so it is more descriptive of the benefit made possible by CalDAV.

hm2k, your research and sharing of related resources is very much appreciated.

[hm2k]

Thanks for your responses.

I'm sure with a drive interest will soon be established as others discover this feature as a valuable asset.

Moderators, thanks for your assistance.

For anyone else reading this, if you are interested, please add a reply.

Thanks.

[dmendell]

We have been doing a lot of work in the CalDav area. Visit dotCal.com to see how this works.

[hm2k]

I see no mention of cPanel on the dotcal.com website, how does this relate?

[hillbilly1980]

Now that thunderbird lightning is about to go final it would be a good time to get this feature in cPanel. We've been looking at options to roll this out.

[hm2k]

I believe that the way forward is to add mod_caldav into Apache.

[myusername]

I'd be psyched to have it easily available on my servers as well.

[cPanelDavidG]

I believe that the way forward is to add mod_caldav into Apache.

This does seem like an ideal way of proceeding with this. However, in speaking to our developers, one issue that became immediately apparent was Apache would be running as a user other than the cPanel user. I know many of us at cPanel prefer files to be owned by the cPanel user so people don't inadvertently access files they shouldn't be accessing, I was wondering if this was a major concern for those looking to have CalDAV capabilities.

Another alternative would be to modify cpdavd, but it would be preferable for us to ensure the changes we make for 11.28 in cpdavd accommodate common uses of the DAV protocol before we tinker with it to add CalDAV capabilities.

I don't use CalDAV myself that much, but so far these are looking to be non-trivial solutions. Maybe those more familiar with CalDAV can provide more insight?