What CardDAV URL to use with Owncloud?

[skarra]

What CardDAV URL to use with Owncloud?

[skarra]

I am not familiar with owncloud, but you should try this:

Use http://localhost:xxxx for the --store (try with explicit port number)

and use /owncloud/remote.php/carddav/addressbooks/me/contacts for --folder options while creating a profile

[skarra]

Two other things you could try:

a) instead of specifying a path, you could specify 'default', and let ASynK figure out the default addressbook for you (if that is what you want atleast initially)

b) If you are on a Mac, you could connect your Apple Addressbook to your owncloud; the setup is reasonably straightforward, and as a side effect you should be able to read the full path of your addressbook on the server.

[unhammer]

I'm guessing --folder has first one arg for bbdb and then one for carddav?
Tried both
--store ~/.bbdb https://localhost:443 --folder default default
and
--store ~/.bbdb https://localhost:443 --folder default /owncloud/remote.php/carddav/addressbooks/me/contacts
with no luck :-/ both give 405: Method Not Allowed.

(BTW, the owncloud CardDAV works fine with e.g. http://dmfs.org/carddav/, where I input the full URL.) I don't have a Mac, so can't test that.

[skarra]

A few other things we could try:

a) Is there anything in the asynk log file that could tell us what's going on. Can you send it to me/
b) If that is not enlightening, I could debug this on an owncloud system if you can set me up with an account for a short period
c) If (b) is not posible, I could try installing owncloud myself and debug; however this is too much of a detour for me, and I may not get to this in the immediate future.

[skarra]

OK; thanks for creating a temporary account for me. I believe part of the reason is owncloud keeps responding with 302 redirects for pretty much everything; and the underlying caldavclientlibrary I use is not handling these redirects. I will look into this some more...

[skarra]

Kevin, I have been unable to debug this problem yet.

[skarra]

Did not mean to close the issue... Basically there is something weird happening with the way the Apple CalDAVClientLibrary is handling the responses from ownCloud. I have written to the Apple guys but no luck.

I also tried hooking up my Mac AddressBook to the ownCloud account, it could not connect either. So I am a bit stuck here. Just thought I'd let you know I tried but peace still eludes.

[tanghus]

There's docs for syncing with OSX address book http://doc.owncloud.org/server/5.0/user_manual/pim/sync_osx.html

[unhammer]

Note: I did get an iPhone to sync with my owncloud, but perhaps that uses some other syncing library than Mac AddressBook?

[skarra]

Thank you for sending this. Now that I look at this after a gap, I realize
I have been making a ridiculous error.... I have been using index.php
instead of remote.php/ Aaaaaaargh. I have now been able connect my Apple
Addressbook to owncloud. Atleast this is a start, and hopefully I will be
able to get to the bottom of this now.

On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 6:54 PM, Thomas Tanghus [email protected]:

There's docs for syncing with OSX address book
http://doc.owncloud.org/server/5.0/user_manual/pim/sync_osx.html

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[skarra]

Breakthrough... Please update to head on master - making sure you also update submodules. The configuration you need to use is:

folder id should be either "default" or "/owncloud/remote.php/carddav/addressbooks/skarra/contacts/"
store id should be like: "https://unhammer.org/owncloud/remote.php/carddav/principals/skarra"

For e.g. here is an extract from my state.json:

     "coll_1" : { "dbid" : "bb",
          "foid" : "default",
          "stid" : "/Users/sriramkarra/dotfiles/bbdb.testbbcd.own"
        },
      "coll_2" : { "dbid" : "cd",
          "foid" : "default",
          "stid" : "https://unhammer.org/owncloud/remote.php/carddav/principals/skarra"
        },
      "conflict_resolve" : "bb",

[unhammer]

Sweet, this works :-)

I had to use the "/owncloud/remote.php/carddav/addressbooks/skarra/contacts/" style folder id, but otherwise it seems to log in correctly and fetch all the contacts. (With another bug, but that's for another report …)

[unhammer]

And I guess this can be closed now …

[tanghus]

Good to hear it works for you :)