Re: Cocoa code for publishing a calendar

FROM : Ray Kiddy
DATE : Wed Jan 01 17:16:05 2003

There are two separate parts to the question here.

First, can one publish information in "iCal" format, presumably so that
an iCal application somewhere across the Internet can access it?
Second, can one get this data hosted on .Mac?

The first question is a technical question and the answer is yes, one
can publish information so that it can be read by iCal.

The second question is not really a technical question. When you say
"Publish..." on a calendar you have set up with iCal, the servers at
Apple slurp up the information on that calendar and re-publish it from
the .Mac infrastructure. Do the servers that are the .Mac
infrastructure accept publish requests from clients other than iCal? I
am not sure they do, and Apple might have no interest in providing that
capability.

FYI, I have constructed a few WebObjects applications which publish
information my iCal application can use. Is this of interest? One could
presumably do this in Cocoa, but since what one must do is publish
standard vCal data over a HTTP connection, would one write a web server
in Cocoa to do this? There was a post to the Omnigroup WebObjects list
a few months ago in which someone published the WOComponents needed for
this.

Or are you interested in trying to reverse-engineer the iCal/.Mac
conversation so that your own client can get the Apple .Mac
infrastructure to vend its calendars? This might not be worth the
effort. It might be easier to export your data into iCal, and get iCal
to publish the data to .Mac.

- ray

On Wednesday, January 1, 2003, at 03:56 PM, Joseph Jones wrote:

> Hi,
>
>    Does anyone have code or pointer to code/information for
> publishing iCal
> calendars? I have a program that can export a Calendar in iCal format
> and
> I'd like to be able to publish the calendar to .Mac like iCal does.
>
> Thanx,
> Joe
>
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