Webcal
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Webcal is a
uniform resource identifier (URI) scheme for accessing iCalendar files. WebCal allows you to create and maintain an interactive events calendar or scheduling system on a Web site or app.[1][dead link
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The webcal scheme was devised for use with the
readers
. The idea is that with this protocol prefix the target file should be subscribed to rather than imported into the calendar application as would happen with a simple download.
Handlers
Notable software packages and web applications supporting the webcal protocol include:
Alternative protocols
CalDAV and GroupDAV are both efforts to provide WebDAV-based access to calendar stores with finer granularity. The CalDAV Access protocol has been standardized by the IETF and published as RFC 4791. Extensions to CalDAV for automated scheduling are also standardized, as RFC 6638.
Neither of those protocols call for using DAV style URIs. Instead, both drafts call for using the HTTP OPTIONS feature to return that the server supports calendaring extensions.
See also
References
- ^ "WebCal Documentation Part 1". awsd.com. Archived from the original on 2023-06-06.
- ^ "Resource Identifier (RI) Scheme name: webcal". IANA. 23 September 2012.
- ^ "Open Webcal Links with Google Calendar". Google Operating System. 7 October 2011.
- ^ "View and Subscribe to Internet Calendars". Microsoft Office.
- ^ "Creating New Calendars". Mozilla Support for Thunderbird.
External links
- RFC 4324: Calendar Access Protocol (CAP)
- RFC 5545: Internet Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object Specification (iCalendar) (replaces RFC 2445)
- Webcal description and rationale archived at the Wayback Machine.