Re: [NTLK] Well, here's one iCal bit that we can do easily...

From: Victor Rehorst (victor_at_newtontalk.net)
Date: Fri Sep 13 2002 - 06:20:23 PDT

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On Fri, 13 Sep 2002, Sean Luke wrote:

> Apple's got a standardized format called "ics" for calendars. They
> also have an automagical update mechanism for calendars via some
> protocol called "webcal". But replacing "webcal://..." with
> "http://..." results in a valid URL. :-) So I think we can trivially
> make a NewtsCape API app which will download Apple .ics calendar files
> and dump them into Dates.
>
> An example calendar file. As you can see, a piece of cake to parse.
> http://homepage.mac.com/ical/.calendars/SAT.ics

Well, I don't see how that's any different from vCalendar. In fact, it is
vCalendar except for the X-WR- fields.

That would be fairly easy, except for the tedious work that would be
writing a parser for it by hand in NewtonScript.

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