[za-pm] Getting connected to the za-pm website. bitcard, webdav, cadaver, and all that!

[Anne Wainwright]

Hello, Edoardo,

We're in! I've saved that somewhere safe. Thanks, lets look at what we
have got.

anotheranne at pandora:~$ cadaver https://groups.pm.org/groups/za
WARNING: Untrusted server certificate presented for `groups.pm.org':
Issued to: Group Hosting Services, Perl Mongers, Los Angeles,
California, US
Issued by: Certificate Authority, Develooper, Los Angeles, CA, US
Certificate is valid from Thu, 07 Dec 2006 11:24:49 GMT to Tue, 06 Dec
2011 11:24:49 GMT
Do you wish to accept the certificate? (y/n) y
Authentication required for groups.perl.org on server `groups.pm.org':
Username: anotheranne
Password: 
dav:/groups/za/> ls
Listing collection `/groups/za/': succeeded.
Coll:   articles                               0  Jun  7  2003
Coll:   images                                 0  Mar 23  2003
        about.html                          4438  Mar 23  2003
        articles.html                       2671  Jun  7  2003
        index.html                          7499  Jun  7  2003
        template.html                       1933  Mar 23  2003
        updates.tar.gz                     12876  Jun  7  2003
        www-2003-03-23.tar.gz               8634  Mar 23  2003
dav:/groups/za/> 

anne

On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 20:27:16 +0200
Edoardo Sabadelli <edoardo.sabadelli at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 8:08 PM, Anne Wainwright
> <anotheranne at fables.co.za> wrote:
> > Hello, Edoardo,
> 
> Hi!
> 
> > Thanks for the reply. The account has been re-activated according to
> > support at pm.org
> >
> >>- I submitted a DNS request for you (pulling za.pm.org back to our
> >>  server)
> 
> This sounds a bit strange tho, I think the site has always been
> online, so I don't understand the "pulling za.pm.org back to our
> server"...
> 
> > anotheranne at pandora:~$ cadaver
> > https://groups.pm.org/groups/za.pm.org WARNING: Untrusted server
> > certificate presented for `groups.pm.org': Issued to: Group Hosting
> > Services, Perl Mongers, Los Angeles, California, US
> > Issued by: Certificate Authority, Develooper, Los Angeles, CA, US
> > Certificate is valid from Thu, 07 Dec 2006 11:24:49 GMT to Tue, 06
> > Dec 2011 11:24:49 GMT
> > Do you wish to accept the certificate?
> > (y/n) y
> > Authentication required for groups.perl.org on server
> > `groups.pm.org':
> > Username: anotheranne
> > Password:
> > Could not open collection:
> > 403 Forbidden
> 
> This error can mean that the authentication fails or that the folder
> za.pm.org does not exists.
> 
> From the FAQ I think it the URL should be
> https://groups.pm.org/groups/za. Did you try also that?
> 
> > dav:/groups/za.pm.org/?
> > dav:/groups/za.pm.org/? ls
> > The `ls' command can only be used when connected to the server.
> > Try running `open' first (see `help open' for more details).
> > dav:/groups/za.pm.org/? help open
> >  `open URL'   Open connection to given URL
> > dav:/groups/za.pm.org/? open http://za.pm.org/
> 
> I think the open should not be needed when passing a URL directly to
> cadaver as argument...
> 
> > thus not sure where to go next. Maybe support at pm.org are incorrect.
> > Since the za-pm site is visible, it must have been done?
> 
> Yes, it must be there.
> So my suggestion is to try https://groups.pm.org/groups/za.
> If that still doesn't work, maybe try a different DAV client, I don't
> have experience with cadaver but it should support https...
> 
> > ps. I think copy to the list to show activity at least.
> 
> Yes, sorry, I read the first note in your mail and didn't understand
> the meaning ;)
>