[Users] vcalendar webcal authentication

[Cia Watson]

On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 18:51:54 +0200
Jakub Fišer <kuba at ufiseru.cz> wrote:

> Hi folks,
> 
> anybody has any idea how to make vcalendar work with webcals
> that require authentication (in my case an Exchange calendar
> provided by DavMail)?
> 
> using url http://username@company.com:password@127.0.0.1:1080/blah..
> and variations upon. Receiving either "Cannot connect to server"
> or "Authentication required". Former case when the @ symbol in username
> is used as plain, latter when I try to get rid of the @ somehow
> (escape, urlencode,
> NT-like username...)

I've not done that myself, but when I used to log in to email on an exchange
server where I used to work, it was in the format: https://mymail.company.com
so perhaps you want to use https instead of http if it needs to be
authenticated?

Cia W.