Tickets :: Comment on [#11638] ActiveSync :: The Autodiscover URL must be configurable, not extracted from the email address performing the query.

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Comment	>>>> If you have a single horde installation serving a couple of domains, >>>> you oftne have only one SSL certificate covering the domain of your >>>> horde installation, not of all virtual domains the horde installation >>>> serves. >>>> >>>> Because the AutoDiscover feature is usually performed via SSL and >>>> mosts clients quit autodiscovery if the find a untrusted or invalid >>>> SSL certificate, it is mandatory to return an ActiveSync URL covered >>>> with that SSL certificate, not with URL derived from the email Domain. >>> >>> The host is NOT directly calculated on ther server from the email >>> address provided by the user/client. It's parsed out of the result of >>> Horde::url(), which returns a URL based on $conf['server']['name']. >>> >>> Are you using virtual-domain specific configuration files? If so, >>> that might explain why this is happening since the client uses the >>> email address to determine which server to query for the >>> Autodiscovery. >>> >>> Telling ActiveSync to use the one domain for all activesync requests >>> will cause your custom domain specific configuration files to be >>> ignored. >>> >>> Instead of adding this as a configuration option, I'm going to add a >>> new hook. I've had various hooks planned for autodiscover but were >>> pretty low priority for me. >> >> Hmm, that sounds horde has already the right behaviour I need. Maybe >> I've mixed something up, I was hunting several horde problems in the >> last days. >> >> I'll check this again after work and will comment this bug again. >> >> Yeah hooks sounds great, this would allow to modify the autodiscover >> behavior without adding lots of new options to the configuration. >> >> Torben > > Hi, > I have no vhost configs, I have a single horde installation for > multiple domains.. > > Of course the client uses the email address to determine the url to > query for autodetection, but each of my virtual domains has a DNS > redirect entry and horde is only availableto redirect autodiscover > queries to www.my-host.tld - and it works with outlook. So according > to the specs, each client device should restart the autodiscover at > www.my-host.tld. > > I have verified the problem: > My horde is located at 'www.my-host.tld' while to have only a single > SSL certificate to buy. > emailadresses with user@virtual-domain.tld get a ActiveSync URL > 'https://virtual-domain.tld/Microsoft-Server-ActiveSync' but not > 'https://www.my-host.tld/Microsoft-Server-ActiveSync' > Even when I use an email-address user@my-host.tld it uses > 'https://my-host.tld/Microsoft-Server-ActiveSync' and not > 'https://www.my-host.tld/Microsoft-Server-ActiveSync' > -- is that the correct behaviour? > > Anyway, the tip to specify my correct horde URL in > $conf['server']['name'] as $conf['server']['name'] = > 'www.my-host.tld' instead of using SERVER_NAME did the trick, now it > works correctly. > For me this issue is closed... > > Many thanks, > Torben > > By the way: the interesting question is why my webserver delivers > horde querys vor http://virtual.tld but the apaceh vhost is > configured only for https://www.my-host.tld .... THAT seems to be a > true bug ;)
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