iCal Feed Not working

[usminteractive]

Hello,

I am trying to use this iCal feed with my calendar and I keep getting the message “Unable to retrieve content from the provided URL.” The URL was previously in the iCal importer and was working but was accidentally deleted and now I am not able to resubmit it.

The feed is http://www.bsdvt.org/modules/calendar/exportICal.php?oc_id%5B%5D=15272

When I use this validator: http://severinghaus.org/projects/icv/ it says it is a valid URL and when I put it into the Apple Calendar App it works as it should.

Any ideas as to why this is happening?

Here is a screenshot: http://imgur.com/GWz1Ygp

Thanks,
Pete Hegman

[Geoff B.]

Good evening Pete and welcome to the Events Calendar Support forum!

Thank you for reaching out to us.

We are sorry to hear about the “Unable to retrieve content from the provided URL.” you have been getting.
I would love to help you with this topic.

The main issue here is that the URL in question will generate a .ics file, but is not technically a standard iCal feed URL per se (as opposed to a straight .ics of feed URL).

The solution here would be to provide a direct URL as opposed to a PHP based one that “adds an extra step” before providing the actual URL.

I wish I had a better answer for you, but for now it’s the best one I have.

Best regards,

Geoff B.

 

[Geoff B.]

Good evening Pete,

I have a bit of an update on this topic which might be of interest to you.

After careful consideration and testing, we have decided to work on expanding the types of iCal formats we will support with our iCal importer plugin (including yours).
As such, a dev ticket has been opened. Unfortunately, I cannot commit to a release date at this point. But stay tuned, you will be notified as soon as it’s available!

Thank you for your understanding,

Geoff B.

[usminteractive]

Hi Geoff,

Great! Thanks for the update on this. Looking forward to the updated iCal importer.

Cheers,
Pete

[Geoff B.]

Good evening Pete,

I am glad to know this will be helpful to you.

Hang in there and have a great week!

Geoff B.

[Support Droid]

This topic has not been active for quite some time and will now be closed.

If you still need assistance please simply open a new topic (linking to this one if necessary)
and one of the team will be only too happy to help.

[Nico]

Hi there,

Just wanted to inform that maintenance release 4.1.3 is out. The update includes a fix for this issue.

Please update the plugins to the latest version and re-test to see if the fix works for you.

Best,
Nico

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