Monday, April 21, 2008


iCal Through A Proxy Now Officially Somebody Else’s Problem


My little LazyWeb mewl from a few weeks ago didn’t really generate much in the way of attention, though one poster, Matan Ninio, was apparently able to get things working with a manually specified proxy:

The problem seem to be that iCal does not know how to work with a proxy.pac file, but does know how to work via a proxy. Just enter the proxy address and port directly, and suddenly all is well again. (at least thats the case with our 10.5.2 machines)

My employer now supports Juniper’s SSL proxy, though, which means “free” split routing, which means my iCal traffic doesn’t need to negotiate a proxy at all.


:: Dave Walker 15:26 (EST/EDT) [+] ::

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Friedmud wrote:

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Date: 8/25/2008 10:03:32

Response:
Thanks! I was having this problem with iCal at work... we recently switched to having to use an http proxy and iCal stopped syncing my Google Calendars. All I needed to do was manually specify the proxy info... and then it started working again. This is a pretty serious bug... does anyone at Apple know about it?
Xiaofeng Lin wrote:

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Date: 7/27/2010 14:01:34

Response:
Looks like it's been a while. Apple doesn't seem to care. Here is what I did. Use mozilla thunderbird.



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