I just found that while the shared calendars can’t be viewed and thus not edited…Where read/write access to the shared calendar applies, calendar events can be created in the shared calendar on the phone and are shown in the Zimbra web based calendar after sync completes.
Underscores in Root URL not supported
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Specs
DAVDroid Version 0.5.14-alpha from F-Droid
ownCloud 6 hosted on virtual server
LG Nexus 4, Android 4.4.4Summary
Apparently the Root URL does not support underscores in the domain when creating a new account. The next button does not work (simply does not respond) after entering the server details. Root URLs without underscores work.
Steps to reproduce:
- Settings -> Accounts -> Create new account
- Set Root URL to a domain with underscores (e.g.
ud12_34.ud12.udmedia.de/...) - Set random user name and password
- Try click on the next button -> nothing happens, it does not even try to connect
If I remove the underscore (e.g.
ud1234.ud12.udmedia.de/...) DAVDroid tries to connect, however it fails due to the server address being invalid (as expected). If I use my alternate server URLcloud.domain.net/..., everything works fine including login. However, I don’t have a SSL certificate issued for that domain, hence I can’t use HTTPS then. -
Host names MUST – in contrast to DNS names which are not A or MX records – not contain underscores:
- http://domainkeys.sourceforge.net/underscore.html
- RFC 1738 3.1, look for “host”
- RFC 1034 3.5
The host name validation is not done by DAVdroid but by Java: DAVdroid will allow any host that is correctly parsed by
URIand doesn’t raiseURISyntaxException.Closing because working as intended.
(You may use a hyphen instead).
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Interesting - I should talk to my provider then.
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Hello rfc2822,
I come back on this “issue”, because I met it.
As you said, and indeed you are right, underscore should not be allowed in DNS records.But still, your application has a problem: a lack of warning/error message when this error happens.
Because of this behaviour (no warning at all), your application just looks like it is “no responding”, and users – which are not aware of this information, like I did – will just quit your application and delete it when they meet this bad behaviour … like I did.
Therefore, I think you should handling the
URISyntaxExceptionand warn the user (simple message like “Warning/error: underscores are not allowed in hostname.”)Thanks for support.
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Thibaud CANALEPS: respecting standards is good, handling exceptions is better.
