Question: CalDav Sync

[cpfaff]

He there. I just wanted to try out the caldav snychronization with calcurse. I followed the setup instruction for a base authentication that I found on the web. However I always get a 401 from the caldav server that I want to sync with. The setup in general work as it works with vdirsyncer. I do not know what is the problem but I have a suspect and wanted to talk to one of you about it. The username that was given to me by my CalDav server provider contains a backslash. And also the password contains several special characters. So I wanted to ask you if it is neccessary to quote these two to denote that this is a string. Or do I need to escpape some characters. And if I need to escape... the question would be which characters would that be and how to escape? Any help would be appreciated.

[lfos]

You can try to use the PasswordCommand option (which is now the recommended form of storing/passing the password). With that it's up to the tool integrating to print the password correctly, and there shouldn't be any need to escape.