List of supported WebDAV services?
EdoSecco opened this issue · comments
It would be very useful to have a list of services that can (or can't) be used with SilentNotes (something like this).
I'm currently using Dropbox for sync, but I've also a Fruux user; after seeing that SilentNotes can be used also with WebDAV services I tried to create a profile there, but it seems it isn't possible.
Thank you for the suggestion.
A list of supported WebDav providers would be useful, but actually the services can be tested quite easily and keeping the list up to date could be challenging. The problem is to find out the correct URL for the WebDav directory, it depends on the provider and sometimes it is necessary to enable WebDav in their options. As soon as you got the URL, you can try to setup a connection with the Windows File Explorer (not IE), if you can establish a connection there, it should be possible to setup a connection with SilentNotes too. If not I would be interested to investigate, because SilentNotes should be able to work with any kind of WebDav providers.
Maybe it would be a good idea to contribute to an existing list, instead of creating a new one. Recently I wanted to integrate mailbox.org as online-storage-provider and found out that they have an URL scheme containing the registered name (which is known only to the user), like:
https://dav.mailbox.org/servlet/webdav.infostore/Userstore/firstname%20surname
I added a note on SilentNotes homepage: https://www.martinstoeckli.ch/silentnotes/silentnotes.html#mailbox-org
This is another interesting list of WebDav urls: https://community.cryptomator.org/t/webdav-urls-of-common-cloud-storage-services/75
Maybe it would be a good idea to contribute to an existing list, instead of creating a new one. Recently I wanted to integrate mailbox.org as online-storage-provider and found out that they have an URL scheme containing the registered name (which is known only to the user), like:
https://dav.mailbox.org/servlet/webdav.infostore/Userstore/firstname%20surnameI added a note on SilentNotes homepage: https://www.martinstoeckli.ch/silentnotes/silentnotes.html#mailbox-org
For me only https://dav.mailbox.org/servlet/webdav.infostore/Userstore/firstname%2C%20surname/ worked. An additional url encoded comma is necessary.
@stubb - Thank you for the hint, seems they changed the format (the example on their homepage for Linux is still without the comma). I updated the example on SilentNotes homepage.
@martinstoeckli I recently tried to connect silentnote to my mailbox.org account and it took many tries getting this error "Could not connect to the server, please check the internet connection and server address in the settings" before I succeeded.
The key ended up being that the firstname and lastname values are case-sensitive.
Is it possible to add more detail to the error message to help troubleshoot? It would be very helpful if the error message read something like: Server found, login successful, folder not found. or some variation to help narrow down the exact issue for the user.
On a second topic - I was hoping silentnote would sync with my Apple Notes on my mailbox.org account. They appear to be in a different folder however as they do not show up in silentnote even after a successful sync. Does anyone know what folder Apple Notes stores notes in on mailbox.org?
Thanks
@veritea2 - Thank you for writing, I updated the section about mailbox.org on SilentNotes homepage.
The repositories of Apple Notes and SilentNotes are not compatible, both programs use a different format to store the notes. Because of the end-to-end encrypted nature of SilentNotes repository storage, there is no way I can implement this.