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Comment 3 for bug 726376

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Jeremy Malcolm (terminus) wrote : Re: [Bug 726376] Re: Cannot create a WebDAV address book

On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 21:39 +0000, Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre wrote:
> Can you please go back to the settings for your address book and verify
> that if you need a port number set to reach the webdav addressbook, it
> indeed shows in the settings for that address book?

No port number is needed as it uses the default port 80 (non-SSL).

> If it doesn't, then this is likely to be a consequence of
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=633332 , for which the fix
> may need to be backported.

But note that one of the responses to that bug report says "However, I
still can't get the webdav addressbook working. Evolution just appears
to wait to speak to the server, but doesn't actually make contact, as
evidenced from the server logs." This is my experience too.

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