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Is there a way to return the ical URI with the schema “webcal”? This way, our Outlook subscribers can subscribe to the live/dynamic event feed, rather than simply download the one-time http://…/ical/ feed.
Yes: webcal://domain.com/events/ical/
No: http://domain.com/events/ical/Hardcoding the webcal URI works fine.
Hey Joe. This is an interesting request; let me see if our dev Joey has any ideas on this and whether there is any way to do it. I’ve sent this his way and asked him to respond directly if he does.
Hi Joe,
Bad news first and then good news. We will never support webcal directly out of the box. It’s simply not supported by enough browsers and operating systems to warrant a change on our part.
Good news: we have a filter on the function that outputs the link, so you can very easily filter the link to use webcal instead of http, here’s an example: https://gist.github.com/1843411 (you can throw this into your theme’s function.php file).
Hope this helps and let me know if you have any other questions 🙂
Joey,
THANKS for letting me know about the filter. I’ll work with it from here.
The issue is I need a “live feed,” not (what this Outlook/MS Exchange Server sees as a) static file. As I’m getting a quick lesson in iCal and webcal et al., feedback on an alternative or useful resources for further reading, are welcome.
Thanks again.
THe iCal functionality is only in Pro, so you willl require Pro as well for this filter to work. I am assuming that since you were able to post in here, you already have Pro though 🙂
Most appreciated, Joey!
Joe: let us know if we can do anything else. Thanks again for using this plugin.
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