Fetching iCal – Unknown Error

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  • March 4, 2015 at 12:48 am #15359

    I just added an iCal feed and when it tries to fetch it, I get “Unknown Error”.

    Thanks.

    Jordan
    March 4, 2015 at 11:35 am #15365

    Hi Jordan,

    This usually happens when the site is unable to reach the iCal feed. Can you provide the url of the feed?

    Stephen Harris
    March 13, 2015 at 4:53 am #15529

    I have the same problem. The fetching of the calendar always worked, but now I receive “Unknown Error”. Any ideas how to fix it?
    Thank you!

    Eva Mueller
    March 13, 2015 at 10:38 am #15543

    Thanks for the e-mail Eva, I’ll be in touch.

    Stephen Harris
    March 14, 2015 at 1:16 pm #15570

    Sorry for the delay – https://cslc.nursing.nyu.edu/Calendar.ashx?token=cb26009fb17d494eba850b10715ead51

    Jordan
    March 14, 2015 at 8:03 pm #15575

    Hi Jordan,

    Thanks for posting that. The iCal feed you linked to was quite slow in generating, so I think the issue was probably a timeout one. Subsequent updates have increased the timeout limit to circumvent this problem, which version are you currently running, and are you still getting the ‘unknown error’ message?

    Stephen Harris
    March 15, 2015 at 1:44 pm #15582

    I just updated to 2.12.3 and tried fetching the iCal twice. I still received the “Unknown Error”.

    Jordan
    March 18, 2015 at 11:21 am #15638

    Hi Jordan,

    I’ve just sent you an e-mail regarding this issue.

    Stephen Harris
    April 24, 2015 at 5:34 pm #16368

    I have been getting the same error message and “[Line 9] Invalid datetime “20150926”. Date expected in YYYYMMDDTHHiissZ or YYYYMMDDTHHiiss format.”

    Here is the feed: webcal://stanza.co/api/schedules/umn/m-footbl/m-footbl.ics?language=english

    Leo Busker
    April 24, 2015 at 11:43 pm #16378

    Hi Leo,

    That error is different from Jordan’s, but has also been discussed elsewhere on the forums. The iCal source is incorrectly formatted.

    The plug-in is currently quite strict in that feeds which deviate from the iCal specification may cause errors. In a future update it will probably be made more forgiving, in the mean time you can install this extension which acts as a work-around for incorrectly formatted feeds: https://gist.github.com/stephenharris/1a2c7f024f15b278e121

    Stephen Harris
    April 24, 2015 at 11:57 pm #16379

    Hi Stephen,

    How do I install this work around? The download is a .tar

    Sorry for my lack of knowledge in this matter.

    Leo

    Leo Busker
    April 27, 2015 at 7:52 pm #16428

    Hmm, that’s annoying. I’ve uploaded here for now.

    Stephen Harris
    June 17, 2015 at 6:07 pm #17392

    Stephen, can i send you my feed url so you can see if there is something obvious? I am getting unknown error

    Please send me email so I do not have to post feed.

    Chuck Menzel
    June 17, 2015 at 10:13 pm #17397

    Hi Chuck, I’ve just sent you an e-mail.

    Stephen Harris
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