Readout ics calendar link in a live site

  • Resolved Greendroid

    (@greendroid)


    11 months ago

    Good morning,

    thanks again for this awesome calendar plugin. We are using it multiple times on our webpage!

    Today one thing came into my mind: How is the data security of this plugin? For an experienced developer is it possible to somehow readout the link to my ICS file from the shortcode?

    For example: At some points we just want to show a “preview” to some calendar details and therefore hide the calendar descriptions. The descriptions are in the file included, but not shown. So would it be possible to readout the file link and download it from the site directly?

    Thanks and kind regards
    Greendroid

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  • Plugin Author room34

    (@room34)

    ICS Calendar does not present the feed URL to users under any circumstances, so there’s no way for a visitor to your site to gain access to your raw feed.

    ICS Calendar Pro does have an option to share a Subscribe link, which points directly to the original feed, but at that point it’s an obvious and deliberate choice to share the feed data publicly. The free version does not have this option.

    I should add: the eventdl parameter, which lets users download individual events, does include all of the data for a given event, but it doesn’t make the full feed URL public (even in the HTML code), and again it’s something you have to choose to turn on.

    • This reply was modified 11 months ago by room34.
    Thread Starter Greendroid

    (@greendroid)

    Hi room34,

    thanks for your quick response. Thats good news, then my link and the additional content is save. Thanks!

    Kind Regards
    Greendroid

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