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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.
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moo said 3:19PM on 9-21-2006
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.
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Marky said 3:48PM on 9-21-2006
Tried this on a number of servers with FTP and it doesn't work.
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Joel said 4:43PM on 9-21-2006
I've been publishing via ftp for a while now using scalp:
http://pygmysoftware.com/software/scalp/
Joel
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Jan Peters said 11:52AM on 9-22-2006
Did anybody manage to publish their iCal's on Gmail?
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Ben said 7:31PM on 9-21-2006
Seems to publish a blank file...?
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Thomas said 9:27PM on 9-21-2006
Didn't work for me eihter. :(
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Diego said 11:04PM on 9-21-2006
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?
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Randy said 1:58AM on 9-22-2006
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
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Ringo said 4:15AM on 9-28-2006
trying to reimport the published iCal file from the ftp gives me "unreadable" file error...
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