Re:Calendar.txt
by acidburnNSA on Friday February 28, 2025 @10:09AM
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This is close to what I want. I manage all my calendars in radical caldav server and want a sharable calendar that just shows the empty spots between all calendars with minimal detail fo easy scheduling.
It would be nice if Radicale could serve a FREEBUSY URL which takes contents from a your calendars. Some applications support this format and can help with scheduling meetings. I never got to use it in practice though.
Could you elaborate on the "hidden URL"?
Just a hard to guess one. Like using UUID or things.
Re:Calendar.txt
by vekatimest on Friday February 28, 2025 @02:19PM
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I'd be way more comfortable with a VPN or some kind of access-gating for a personal calendar compared to just exposing it on the web and relying on obscurity..
Web calendars don't offer authentication. You have to build it into the URL anyway. If a service I use -- let's say my bank's chequing account, wants to offer a calendar I can subscribe to, I'll be given a URL that looks like https://somebank.com/api/cal?token=abc12345. Anyone who knows that URL can see the calendar as well. No different than my own web app where the URL is https://mysite.com/dev/cal_abc12345.ics.
For a personal calendar, I see no reason to make it any more secure than an obscure URL.
It sounds super dumb but it works so well.
The main feature is that I can categorize the events (personal, family, work, friends, etc.) and share individual URL’s with other people. Admitedly, I didn’t try solving this problem with Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, or any other calendar service, mostly because I wanted to own my data and also learn a bit more about CalDav itself.