Re: Netscape and Pilotmgr

[alanr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

> Martin,
> I'm looking for the simplest and most direct way of syncing my PalmPilot
> with my Solaris 2.5.1 Netscape Calendar.  Judging from CS&T's home page,
> you're correct that the technology in Netscape Calendar is theirs, although
> Netscape doesn't seem to give them credit on their web site.  Unfortunately,
> neither site provides much insight as to how the product works.  
> 
> Netscape FAQ's note that there are two daemons running on the server and 
> listening on specific ports.  If you could figure out how to connect to 
> these, you could probably bypass the browser to get a stream of Calendar
> data.  Both sites hint, although they never explicitly state it, that what
> you'd get would be a stream of vCalendar data.  This is very likely what
> the PC plugin for HotSync (also a CS&T product, apparently) does. If
> anyone has more information about the internals of the product they can
> share, it would be very useful.  

Frank,

I'm in the process of putting together a TCP logging proxy/redirector which
would allow you to capture the datastream between a NS calendar manager client
and the server.  Let me know if you want to play with it.

	-- Alan Robertson
	   alanr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (alanr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx)
 
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