No password asked for CalDav calendar (ownCloud)

[zinz...@gmail.com]

Hello everybody,

I am changing caldav provider (switching to ownCloud) but no password is being asked after calendar setup, and therefore no sync is taking place.

How could I force the authentication dialog to show up?

More details:
- Here are the steps I am following:
- I create a remote caldav calendar, with address
- https://myserver/owncloud/remote.php/caldav/calendars/user/mycalendar
- The box "online cache" is checked (I aslo tried without, doesn't change).
- The calendar appears in the calendar list as greyed.
- The error log shows
- CalDAV: Status 403 on initial PROPFIND for calendar mycalendar
- [JavaScript Error: "[calCachedCalendar] replay action failed: null, uri=https://myserver/owncloud/remote.php/caldav/calendars/nicolas/mycalendar, result=2147500037, op=[xpconnect wrapped calIOperation]"]
So far as I understood, that means that Lightning tries to access a page that it is not allowed to. Makes sense...

Any help greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!


Nicolas

[zinz...@gmail.com]

Note: I am using Thunderbird 24.1.0 with Lightning 2.6.1 on Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04 (same issue).

[Marcel Herrguth]

Hello,

It seems like you are missing the last slash
https://myserver/owncloud/remote.php/caldav/calendars/nicolas/mycalendar/

Try that, it works in my Lightning

Best regards
Marcel


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[zinz...@gmail.com]

On Monday, November 4, 2013 12:14:36 PM UTC+1, Marcel Herrguth wrote:
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> Am 04.11.2013 09:56,
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Hi Marcel and thanks for the help!

I tried adding the last slash, but without success. I still get the same error (CalDAV: Status 403 on initial PROPFIND for calendar mycalendar)

I also tried with and without www and https. No effect.

Any other idea?

[Christian Riechers]

On 11/04/2013 11:18 AM, zinz...@gmail.com wrote:
> Note: I am using Thunderbird 24.1.0 with Lightning 2.6.1 on Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04 (same issue).

You need Lightning 2.6.2.

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Christian

[zinz...@gmail.com]

On Monday, November 4, 2013 9:21:29 PM UTC+1, Christian Riechers wrote:
> On 11/04/2013 11:18 AM

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> Christian

I actually have Lightning 2.6.2. A typo, sorry.

[zinz...@gmail.com]

I remember doing tests with owncloud not so long ago and everything worked.

I a suspecting now some kind of password corruption: an old password stored for a previous installation. Therefore the password is not being asked any more.

Would this make any sense?


I then tried to reset Lightning to its initial state by
- deinstalling it
- deleting the calendar cache folder in thunderbird's profile folder
- deleting all the "calendar.something" lines in prefs.js
- deleting all calendar passwords in the password manager
- reinstalling it

But no success :-(

[zinz...@gmail.com]

Well, maybe something is wrong with ownCloud after all.

When trying another caldav provider, fruux, the password is being asked. And if I don't enter anything, it's being asked again on the next start.
They use the following address type:
https://dav.fruux.com/calendars/user/calendar/

[zinz...@gmail.com]

I tried with another calendar server (baikal) and I get the exact same error: a 403 on the initial PROPFIND because no credentials are being used.

And actually, accessing to ownCloud's calendar works just fine in other programs or directly via the browser.

Note that both baikal and owncloud are installed on the same server.

I then think that, for some reason, Lightning does not prompt for password when given an url from my server.

Any idea why?

[Philipp Kewisch]

baikal has a known issue, I'm not sure if its resolved. Try SabreDAV
maybe, I know that one works for me and is fairly easy to set up.

Philipp

[oderl...@gmail.com]

I had the same problem at first. For me it worked to go to Edit->Preferences in TB and clean out all passwords related to that server URL, then add the calendar. It still didn't ask for password but then I restarted TB and voila! It asked for password and it started to sync my calendar again.

[tristan...@gmail.com]

Bonsoir,

I had exactly the same issue with tbird and owncloud. The solution was to go to my owncloud page, via the web browser.
Then click on the calendar.
Then go to options
Then in the option window, on the right of the name of your calendar, there are some small icons. The second when is "Caldav link".
You click on it. A link will show up.
Copy/Paste this link in Tbird.
And Voilà, for me it works.

Hoping it will solve your issue.

Rgds

T.D

[tobias.l...@gmail.com]

Nice hint, was too blind to see the direct link for the calendar. The final trick was, however, to restart Thunderbird. Only after the restart, it asked for my login and now it's working fine!