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I want Google Calendar to show the events from a remote ics feed protected by HTTP Basic Authentication.
The URL is like:
http://user:password@host/path/eventList?site=calsite&format=calendar
But Google Calendar fails to load this URL ("could not fetch the URL").
How to achieve this?
According to the official directions on how to add it to Google Calendar, it shows a calendar URL in a format that is different than the one you supplied: http://www.tripit.com/calendar/ical/...
Your URL has feed and private in it. It might be due to privacy concerns and only your public events can be displayed.
You could try seeing if there are other iCal URLs for your calendar:
I don't have an account so I can't try it, but this url should take you to where the iCal feed is: https://www.tripit.com/account/login?redirect_url=uhp%2FcalendarInfo
It's not clear from your question what exactly you want to do.
If you want to add events from an external calendar to one of your calendars in GCal, you can do it only on case-by-case basis. Even a third-party tool won't help you with such a sync because if you import an event from a remote calendar and then delete the event in the remote calendar, it will stay in your GCal (iCal compares content not revisions).
If you just want to display a remote calendar in the same view as your primary calendar, follow these steps:
Other calendars in the side barAdd by URLAdd Calendar
Note: Import calendar option in the screenshot is that case-by-case import to add events to your primary calendar.
Best Answer
Google Calendar does not have the option to access password protected feeds.
Try using Yahoo Pipes, which will generate an obfuscated feed url to use in Google Calendar. I've done this to access password protected RSS feeds in Google Reader.
To clarify: password protected iCal feed => Yahoo Pipes => Google Calendar