[Cosmo-dev] Cosmo and Scooby URLs

[Brian Moseley]

On 6/14/06, John Townsend <johntownsend at mac.com> wrote:

> One thought on this was to have a well-known URL in each collection
> that would provide
> the same behavior. Something like this:
>
> GET /cosmo/home/towns/Work/Work.ics
>
> That would return an iCalendar format file for the entire collection
> and Cosmo
> would do that dynamically.
>
> Would that work for iCal's needs?

yes, but i have two problems with it:

1) it introduces a bogus url that doesn't actually represent a
resource. i'd rather use a query parameter (or even better a custom
header, but this wouldn't work with existing clients)

2) it defeats the purpose of having a single url that works for all
dav and caldav clients. chandler and scooby would have to make sure
the user knew to tell their chandler, scooby, sunbird/caldav, et al
using friends about url A and their ical and sunbird/webcal using
friends about url B. to me that is *way* more confusing than having
separate "data" and "web calendar" urls.