We’ve built a feature that provides an import from...
# random
r
We’ve built a feature that provides an import from a web app of an calendar file (.ics) into a user’s calendar. It works fine on Android, Windows and Mac OS. However, iOS has restrictions that prevent it working. I’ve found an example from a local council that use a download with the unofficial Apple protocol webcal:// which I’d like to try out. I’m thinking I need to generate the file, write it to S3 and provide a link to download/subscribe to it to the user, however I can’t figure out how I’d do this with AWS - how do I serve a file using a different protocol?
Doesn’t seem to be much out there but might require running a server (😱) like this one https://radicale.org/v3.html
k
@Ross Coundon There are quite a few providers offering Nextcloud / OwnCloud as a hosted solution. I found tab.digital (NL hosted) a nice choice for my own needs. They do also have reasonable commercial offers to my mind .
For a bit of playing around, maybe their free plan is already enough for testing if the basic functionality you need works as expected.
r
Cool, thanks for that. I may actually have just managed to fool Safari into doing my bidding without the need for WebCal after all but this is handy to know
k
CalDav / CardDav are also great choices for not feeding Google with all contacts - this is one of my use cases on Android 😉
r
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