HTTP Post Examples

You must use this command with an HTTP POST. This is unlike other commands, which can be used with an HTTP GET.

Example 1

The following HTTP POST message exports all components of the calendars jdoe and john to an iCalendar file named export.ica:

POST
/export.wcap?id=t95qm0n0es3bo35r
            &calid=jdoe;john
            &dtstart=0
            &dtend=0
            &content-out=text/calendar

Content-type: multipart/form-data;
boundary=-------------41091400621290
 Content-Length: 47
--------------------- 41091400621290--
WinNT; U)
 Host: jdoe:12345
 Accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, 
         image/jpeg,image/pjpeg,image/png
*/*
 Accept-Encoding: gzip
 Accept-Language: en
 Accept-Charset: iso-8859-1,*,utf-8

Example 2

The following HTML generates a POST message using the export command, producing files in both iCalendar and XML formats:

<form METHOD=POST ENCTYPE="multipart/form-data"  
NAME="john.ics"
ACTION="http://calendarserver:12345/export.wcap
               ?id=t9u9m0eh8x5pu9b&calid=jdoe;john&dtstart=0&dtend=0
               &content-out=text/calendar"\>
<ul\>
 <li\>Press Export ICAL Now:<input type="submit" 
                            value="Export ICAL now"\>
</li\> </ul\> </form\>
<form METHOD=POST ENCTYPE="multipart/form-data" NAME="john.xml"
ACTION="http://calendarserver:12345/export.wcap
               ?id=t9u9m0eh8x5pu9b&calid=jdoe;john&dtstart=0
               &dtend=0&content-out=text/xml"\>
<ul\>
 <li\>Press Export XML Now:<input type="submit" 
                           value="Export XML now”\>
</ul\> </form\>

This is the output generated:

HTTP/1.0 200
 Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2002 22:15:52 GMT
 Content-type: text/calendar
 Content-disposition: attachment; filename="export.ics"
 Content-length: 7004
BEGIN:VCALENDAR
METHOD:PUBLISH
 VERSION:6.0
 BEGIN:VEVENT
 UID:tm-001
 RECURRENCE-ID:20020519T010000Z
 DTSTAMP:20020603T221548Z
 SUMMARY:Calendar Staff
 DTSTART:20020518T170000Z
 DTEND:20020518T190000Z
 CREATED:20020603T024254Z
 LAST-MODIFIED:20020603T024254Z
 PRIORITY:1
 SEQ:1
 GEO:37.463581;-121.897606
 DESC:This is the description for event with UID = tm-001
 URL:http://calendarserver/susan?uid=tm-001
 LOCATION:Green Conference Room
 STATUS:CONFIRMED
 TRANSP:OPAQUE
 END:VEVENT
 BEGIN:VEVENT
 UID:tm-001
 RECURRENCE-ID:20020526T010000Z
 DTSTAMP:20020603T221548Z
SUMMARY:Calendar Staff
 DTSTART:20020525T170000Z
 DTEND:20020525T190000Z
 CREATED:20020603T024254Z
 LAST-MODIFIED:20020603T024254Z
 PRIORITY:1
 SEQ:1
 GEO:37.463581;-121.897606
 DESC:This is the description for event with UID = tm-001
 URL:http://calendarserver/susan?uid=tm-001
 LOCATION:Green Conference Room
 STATUS:CONFIRMED
 TRANSP:OPAQUE
 END:VEVENT
 END:VCALENDAR