Thunderbird, Lightening - How to subscribe to WebDAV published calendars

mfoley · 01-06-2016, 10:06 PM

I want to subscribe to a WebDAV published calendar using Lightening (4.0.4.1). Not sure how to do that and haven't found much help searching. I have an invitation from the publishing party in the form of a URL: webcals://mydom.com/calendars/Office_Calendar_Calendar.ics. In Outlook, clicking that link subscribes me to the calendar and it appears in my list of Calendars. Clicking that link from Tbird basically does nothing.

So ...

1) Can I subscribe to a WebDAV calendar, or only CalDAV calendars (as I understand things, these are different)?

2) If so, how do I do it?

I am using Lightening 4.0.4.1 with Thunderbird 38.4.0 on Ubuntu 15.10. The WebDAV server is Linux Slackware 14.0 with Apache 2.4.16. Note that Outlook users can subscribe to these calendars w/o problem.

THX

descendant_command · 01-06-2016, 11:02 PM

It's probably just the url prefix that is confusing it - try replacing the webcals:// with http:// and enter the url in the New Calendar box.

http://noodlecode.net/2010/02/thunde...lendar-webdav/

mfoley · 01-07-2016, 11:13 AM

Great! That appears to have worked. I'm having the calendar owner post an update to see if it appears on my subscription. This process is quite different from Windows/Outlook. Per your link, in Thunderbird:

1. Calendar Tab
2. File > New > Calendar
3. On the network
4. 'iCalendar (ICS)', location, e.g.: https://mydom.com/calendars/Office_Calendar.ics

Given that the new event shows up, is there a setting to specify the frequency that Lightning checks the server for changes?

Since you've been the only one to tackle my question among the 3 web forums I've posted to, perhaps your expertise can be applied to my related question on publishing: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...79#post5474479

Thanks!

mfoley · 01-07-2016, 09:37 PM

More info ... the webcals prefix on the URL is used by Microsoft Outlook. The procedure for Thunderbird/Lightning is shown immediately above (File > New > Calendar ...). For Outlook, you need to paste the URL webcals://mydom.com/calendars/CalendarName.ics into I.E. and it runs some wizard to add the calendar to Outlook. I just tried this and it works.