No free/busy info for Google Calendar

If a user is added as an attendee to an event, and that user

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:35:24 -0500

If a user is added as an attendee to an event, and that user has a Google Calendar free/busy URL, http://www.google.com/calendar/ical//public/basic, "No information" is all that comes up even though the non-iCal URL, http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=&ctz=America/Toronto, shows that the user is busy/not busy. So there is information. It's just not being read or processed.

Can you please supply an example URL? And are you sure that

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 01:28:12 -0500

Can you please supply an example URL? And are you sure that it's a free/busy feed, not the full calendar feed? They're different things.

An example URL is http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/eric.s

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 02:55:53 -0500

An example URL is http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/eric.standlee@gmail.com/public/basic as listed over at http://crusaderx.blogspot.com/2006/04/google-calendar-feature-share-freebusy.html. Adding him as an attendee yields no information. Now that you mention it, I'm not sure if that's a free/busy feed or a full calendar feed. Which is it? I thought they were the same. It looks like that's all Google Calendar offers. Maybe they don't support free/busy feeds after all.

Even if it isn't the free/busy feed, wouldn't it still be po

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 02:58:09 -0500

Even if it isn't the free/busy feed, wouldn't it still be possible to deduce the free/busy times from it?

> Even if it isn't the free/busy feed, wouldn't it still be

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:09:02 -0500

> Even if it isn't the free/busy feed, wouldn't it still be possible to > deduce the free/busy times from it? No, but the feed actually *is* a valid free/busy url, so it should work.

The iCalendar library can parse that file; one problem seems

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:34:36 -0500

The iCalendar library can parse that file; one problem seems to be that it's huge, so it takes a while to do anything with it. I'm not sure how effectively we're caching, though, and it doesn't seem to give usable information for me either.

The link doesn't work for me anymore. Can you upload that fi

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:42:26 -0500

The link doesn't work for me anymore. Can you upload that file so that it doesn't get lost again?

Luckily, it still works for me. I set the extension to ".ic

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:58:42 -0500

Luckily, it still works for me. I set the extension to ".ics", but maybe it's supposed to be ".vcs". I'm not really sure. Anyway, here it is.

Is this the same like described in the following thread? htt

Fri, 02 May 2008 06:05:30 -0400

Is this the same like described in the following thread? http://lists.horde.org/archives/kronolith/Week-of-Mon-20080428/006810.html

No, it doesn't look like it.

Sun, 11 May 2008 17:21:13 -0400

No, it doesn't look like it.

Turns out, after an hour of debugging our code, that Google

Thu, 22 May 2008 19:51:41 -0400

Turns out, after an hour of debugging our code, that Google free/busy information is broken, aka useless. It does *not* contain *any* free or busy periods.