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ical feed from a icloud to Lotus Notes.

I was wondering if someone could help with me with my ical feed from my icloud calendar. At work I use Lotus Notes 8.5 and it has the capability of letting me add a icalendar feed from a source. With some searching I found that on the right of the calendar list in icloud.com you can share your calendar. By creating a public calendar I can see a URL. This URL begins in webcal: and will not work in Lotus Notes. After reading I saw where you can just change the webcal: to http: and that should work. It does not. Whatever change I make I get a message saying that there are incorrect characters in the URL. The URL that I am given is: webcal://p03-www.icloud.com/ca/subscribe/1/lWK58a2abm8l7Dh.................... (rest of long string of alpha numeric removed for security). The string ends in a numeric character. Any ideas how I can get this to work at all? Thanks in advance.

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2)

Posted on Nov 4, 2011 4:10 PM

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Posted on Mar 5, 2012 3:00 PM

Change webcal:// to https:// and then create a cross-certificate when prompted.

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Sep 23, 2013 2:21 AM in response to Scott Adelman

Any news on this? As LeftyInNC stated this works only if the calendar is public, no good idea e.g. for a family calendar.


So how can an iCloud private calendar be at least viewed from Notes?


Here is what I tested:

I opened an iCloud calender to another iCloud user, and looked at the URL in the generated invitation mail.

(I had to remove the redirect and replace these HTML characters like "

%2F" to "/")

so that the URL looked nice.


Then I tried to include it to IBM Notes Social Edition (V9.0)


Notes:

Add a Calendar -> iCalendarFeed

- A private calendar

Label: my Icloud calendar

- URL: https://www.icloud.com/calendar/share/#st=e&i<THISISUSERSPECIFIC

(This URL shows the calendar when inserted into a browser window)

- Username: myicloud@mybla.bla

- Password: bla


This leads to the error: calendar unavailable: The content of this URL does not conform to the icalendar parsing specification.



If the calendar is Public the URL gets to:

webcal://p04-calendarws.icloud.com/ca/subscribe/1/5z4r8gRyVU2IEQpIyxvvJ1K7ah_tv2 Pu-WJeR8iAxm1-rBLABLABLAJ4z--dt6EIdAySI


and if you replace webcal with https in Notes it works, so you can see the iCloud entries.


So the problem is solved for public calendars, but what about private?

Sep 14, 2015 12:03 PM in response to Scott Adelman

Hello helpful internet people,


I too, am trying to resolve this problem. Lotus 8.5 allows you to add an iCal feed. It gives you the option of selecting public or private calendar, however when I try to connect to a private calendar I get this message when I have over the yellow exclamation mark next to the newly added calendar.

"The content of this URL does not conform to the icalendar parsing specification."


I am using the URL that I sent to myself with an invitation to join a private my own private iCalendar:

https://www.icloud.com/calendar/share/#st=e&i=2_GE3D.....removed for security ...................


1. What is the URL format that Lotus is looking for?

2. Where can you find your iCalendar URL for a private calendar.


Has anyone solved this problem?


Thanks everyone!

ical feed from a icloud to Lotus Notes.

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