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iCal can publish through FTP after all

Well color us surprised: Mac OS X Hints just found out that iCal actually can publish calendars through FTP (not just WebDAV), opening the doors for many users to publish their calendars and integrate them into services like Google Calendar and the like. One simply needs to use ftp:// when using the Publish... command, and all should be well. While it should be noted this still doesn't enable full sharing and editing of calendars like SyncBridge, it should allow users with non-WebDAV enabled hosts to get their iCal publishing on.

Well color us surprised: Mac OS X Hints just found out that iCal actually can publish calendars through FTP (not just WebDAV), opening the...
 

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Ring0999

trying to reimport the published iCal file from the ftp gives me "unreadable" file error...

September 28 2006 at 4:01 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Randy

Interesting time, I just posted a blog entry last night on this exact same topic using SCALP and PHP iCalendar. If SyncBridge isn't working, check out the other option: http://tinyurl.com/mkoba

Randy at http://www.MacSeven.com

September 22 2006 at 1:52 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Diego Barros

Do any of these publishing options provide password protection for calendars? So that only I can view them and don't open them up for the world to see?

September 21 2006 at 10:43 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Thomas

Didn't work for me eihter. :(

September 21 2006 at 9:27 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Ben

Seems to publish a blank file...?

September 21 2006 at 6:50 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jan Peters

Did anybody manage to publish their iCal's on Gmail?

September 21 2006 at 6:47 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Joel

I've been publishing via ftp for a while now using scalp:
http://pygmysoftware.com/software/scalp/
Joel

September 21 2006 at 4:41 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Marky

Tried this on a number of servers with FTP and it doesn't work.

September 21 2006 at 3:43 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
moo

And of course the addition of the CalDAV standard in Leopard should make it all better, since CalDAV allows editing and sharing of calendars, etc.

September 21 2006 at 3:19 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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