[Mark Lawrence]

I have two possibilities for WebDAV syncing, but neither is working.

The first is through box.net. I added an OmniFocus folder to my box.net account, but when I tried to sync, OF throws up an error message that says

Unable to read document.
No root transactions found in “https://www.box.net/OmniFocus/OmniFocus.ofocus/”.

and doesn't sync. Any idea why this is happening?

My second possibility is through an account at a2hosting.com. This attempt fails at an even earlier stage with the message

untrusted server certificate

I understand this message, but every other application asks me if I want to trust the server anyway. OF doesn't.

I have to say this is pretty annoying. The application description at the App Store says "Synchronize OmniFocus with your Mac using the OS X version available separately from omnigroup.com." I took this to mean that I could sync through iTunes. I had read about MobileMe and WebDAV syncing, but I didn't think they were required.

I bought OF for the Mac recently in anticipation of OF for the iPhone. If I can't get them to sync, they're useless to me. And I don't want to get MobileMe just to sync OF.

What do you suggest?

[Mark Lawrence]

I forgot to mention that I'm using sneakypeek v77.4.0.102663.

[jcasella]

I'm using the same sneakypeek version of OmniFocus, and am getting the same "untrusted server certificate" message. There seems to be no way to bypass this as you can in other applications.

Any suggestions are appreciated.

[troyb]

Are you guys able to sync via http instead of https?

[jcasella]

I should have mentioned this in my initial post. Doing http instead of https yields this error consistently:

"lost network connection"

[Eraserhead]

Originally Posted by troyb

Are you guys able to sync via http instead of https?

That works until it comes up with a read/write error of:

[Brian]

Eraserhead - that's a separate issue, which I know the engineers are working on as well. Keep an eye on the sneakypeeks over the weekend.

[Mark Lawrence]

OK, I got OF on the Mac to sync to the WebDAV host with the untrusted certificate. I did a "Connect to Server" from the Finder, and when the notice came up asking if I wanted to trust that server, I clicked on the little "Always trust" checkbox. I then had to type in my Administrator password. Now OF on the Mac syncs via WebDAV. I should have thought of this earlier.

Unfortunately, my iPhone doesn't trust the server and is now putting up its own "untrusted server certificate" message. Any ideas on how to get it to always trust a particular certificate?

[Lizard]

I haven't tried this out, but there's a tiny chance that doing an iTunes sync will sync the certificate trust over from your keychain?

[Mark Lawrence]

Lizard,

I put the iPhone in the cradle and resynced it through iTunes before trying to sync OF. The certificate trust didn't transfer.

I also just tried connecting to the WebDAV URL via Safari on the iPhone. It told me the certificate was untrusted and asked if I wanted to go there anyway. I said yes and got a directory listing of the WebDAV folder. Unfortunately, I saw no way to make the trust permanent, and OFiPhone still doesn't trust the certificate.

There are, I think, a lot of WebDAV servers out there whose certificates aren't signed by Thawte (or whoever else is considered authoritative). Omni needs to let us get at those servers.