[rt-users] Further iCal/RSS experimenting/problems & some success

[John Arends]

A while back I posted that I could only get iCalendar/RSS feeds to work 
with SunBird and FireFox respectively. I could not get either to work 
with the Mac platform (iCal/Safari) or the Microsoft platform (Outlook 
2007).

As a test, I tried using HTTP authentication with Apache instead of RT's 
internal authentication. When using HTTP auth, the iCalendar and RSS 
feeds work with iCal and Safari. It looks like those two applications 
wanted to prompt for credentials and were able to figure out how to do 
it when using HTTP auth.

I'm still having no luck getting Outlook to subscribe to Internet 
Calendars or RSS feeds, even with HTTP auth. Has anyone had luck with 
this? Is Outlook so weird that nothing can be done? Since we're a heavy 
Exchange shop, I'd like to see if I can get this working with Outlook. 
This would really help push our RT adoption further.

Any thoughts from those who understand how this works better than me? 
For those with Safari/iCal, HTTP auth is your friend.