Re: Webcal and file_get_contents

On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Stuart Dallas <stuart@3ft9.com> wrote: > On 6 Dec 2011, at 10:57, Davo Smith wrote: > >> Does anyone know if there is a simple way to convince >> 'file_get_contents' to treat webcal urls (e.g. >> webcal://www.calendarlabs.com/templates/ical/US-Holidays.ics ) as >> being the same as an http url? (according to Wikipedia, http is >> assumed for webcal urls) >> >> I've looked into using 'stream_wrapper_register', but, unless I've >> misunderstood it, this would require me to write the whole http access >> myself, without being able to just pass it onto the internal http >> processing code. >> >> I've done some web searching, looked through the PHP docs and had a >> look through the archives here, but not managed to find anything >> (sorry if I've missed anything obvious). > > > $url = str_ireplace('webcal://', 'http://', > $url); Thanks for the suggestion, but I've already tried that - the server I'm connecting to expects the URL to start with 'webcal://', I'm trying to find a way to get PHP to treat it as a http connection, without changing the URL. Davo