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Apple iCal & cosmo-demo
user name
2006-03-07 18:49:01
On Mar 7, 2006, at 9:31 AM, Charles Wyble wrote:

>
>
> Lisa Dusseault wrote:
>>
>> On Mar 6, 2006, at 12:17 PM, Morgen Sagen wrote:
>>
>>> I don't think Chandler should assume that
there will be a port 80  
>>> ('http') server along with the port 443
('https') server, and  
>>> that they both refer to the same Cosmo
instance.  I'm not sure  
>>> how Chandler could know this in a general way,
without having  
>>> site-specific logic (in other words, "if
host == 'cosmo-demo'  
>>> then port 443 is equivalent to 80")
inside Chandler.  It's  
>>> perhaps unusual that cosmo-demo is set up this
way, and I  
>>> wouldn't count on it.  I would be interested
to hear what other  
>>> people think.
> Well this isn't entirely true. Its not Chandler thats
the problem  
> but Apple ICAL. They evidently don't support https. So
the logic  
> would actually need to be inside Cosmo no? To detect
the client and  
> do different things.

Well, yes and no.  It affects Chandler because we have a
feature  
which allows you to copy a shared collection's URL to the
clipboard  
so that you can paste it into either an email message (to
invite  
someone to subscribe) or to another client (such as iCal). 
The  
original question was if Chandler could somehow generate the
'iCal  
friendly' URL in this situation, and I think it's
unfortunately 'no'  
since it's unlikely there *will* be such a non-HTTPS URL
(although  
there happens to be one now on cosmo-demo, which was news to
me).

It is really unfortunate Apple removed HTTPS support for
iCal (which  
apparently happened quite recently).  I guess we have to ask
 
ourselves if we want to just use regular HTTP (port 80)
rather than  
HTTPS.
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Apple iCal & cosmo-demo
user name
2006-03-08 01:09:29
So it looks like we have a couple of options if we want to
make this  
work.

1. We could just do http and not https.
2. We could continue to offer access over http, and give
users 3  
urls, 1 for ical specifically.

Could someone comment on the technical tradeoffs for both
solutions?  
For example, what is the downside if we use http (port 80)
rather  
than https?

Thanks,
Sheila

On Mar 7, 2006, at 10:49 AM, Morgen Sagen wrote:

>
> On Mar 7, 2006, at 9:31 AM, Charles Wyble wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Lisa Dusseault wrote:
>>>
>>> On Mar 6, 2006, at 12:17 PM, Morgen Sagen
wrote:
>>>
>>>> I don't think Chandler should assume that
there will be a port  
>>>> 80 ('http') server along with the port
443 ('https') server, and  
>>>> that they both refer to the same Cosmo
instance.  I'm not sure  
>>>> how Chandler could know this in a general
way, without having  
>>>> site-specific logic (in other words,
"if host == 'cosmo-demo'  
>>>> then port 443 is equivalent to 80")
inside Chandler.  It's  
>>>> perhaps unusual that cosmo-demo is set up
this way, and I  
>>>> wouldn't count on it.  I would be
interested to hear what other  
>>>> people think.
>> Well this isn't entirely true. Its not Chandler
thats the problem  
>> but Apple ICAL. They evidently don't support
https. So the logic  
>> would actually need to be inside Cosmo no? To
detect the client  
>> and do different things.
>
> Well, yes and no.  It affects Chandler because we have
a feature  
> which allows you to copy a shared collection's URL to
the clipboard  
> so that you can paste it into either an email message
(to invite  
> someone to subscribe) or to another client (such as
iCal).  The  
> original question was if Chandler could somehow
generate the 'iCal  
> friendly' URL in this situation, and I think it's
unfortunately  
> 'no' since it's unlikely there *will* be such a
non-HTTPS URL  
> (although there happens to be one now on cosmo-demo,
which was news  
> to me).
>
> It is really unfortunate Apple removed HTTPS support
for iCal  
> (which apparently happened quite recently).  I guess we
have to ask  
> ourselves if we want to just use regular HTTP (port 80)
rather than  
> HTTPS.
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