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anyone know why the best option for "add to calendar" on a laptop/desktop is to download the ics file? we have mailto:, which no one uses, but no ical:// ?!

Evert Pot

@evertpot.com

The correct way to do this is setting the right mimetype. If you see a URI scheme for this type of thing they usually didn't know what they were doing. Support for this goes way back. Add a .ics extension just in case (in url or content-disposition header)

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Tyler Lawson

@tyler.fun

I don't know what I'm doing! Is there a blog or guide about how to do this the right way? Or just a website I can copy off of?

Evert Pot

@evertpot.com

How are you hosting this event? Inside some kind of framework? Just hosting an .ics file somewhere might already do the right thing automatically. If you have a url I can verify it for you

Tyler Lawson

@tyler.fun

Here's an example event for the site I'm building. It generates the ics file on-demand when someone presses the add to calendar button. If hosting it as a persistent ics file is all that's needed, that'd be super simple to change. Is that right?

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Evert Pot

@evertpot.com

Well the endpoint that generates the ics just needs 2 headers to do this correctly. Will share after I put my kid in bed!