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From: "Sven Bretfeld" <sven.bretfeld@gmx.ch>
Subject: Re: Re: Adding entries to Google calendar
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Hi

Eric S Fraga <ucecesf@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> I haven't found a way to "push" an ics file to google; however, you
> can tell google calendar to add a calendar that is based on a specific
> url pointing to an ics file and google will periodically load that
> file and update the calendar.  

Yes, that works. I've tested this with my mydisk.se account last week
for one or two days.

> The problem with this is that, although it works just fine, the url
> must be generally accessible (no authentication support). Of course,
> you can obfuscate the path to the file so that it won't be found
> easily but this is only security by hiding... It's also not clear how
> often or when google checks that file although it appears, from my
> limited testing, to be at least once a day but not much more often
> than that.

That's right. You can't update the imported files manually. You always
have to wait for a day before the changes in your ics file become
visible in Google. That's why I abandoned this method.

Greetings,

Sven