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Saturday, February 3, 2007 at 07:19PM by Charlie O'Donnell I was working on a blog for a kayaking program on the other side of the Hudson, and trying to add neat little "add to Outlook" buttons. They don't seem to work as well online as they do off, however. I uploaded .vcs files to typepad, but when I try to open them in Firefox, they just open in the browser as text. When I try in IE, the download window pops up just fine, but when I actually click "open" I get an Outlook message saying "The operation failed. An object could not be found." Do you have the same issues or any suggestions as to what I'm doing wrong. These files open up just fine when they're on my desktop.
Reader Comments (5)
I'm using Outlook XP (2003) in a standalone fashion. Possibly there is an issue if you are using it connected to Exchange?
Outlook also has some problems with otherwise valid ics files that have multiple events.
hope this helps,
Shannon
For Firefox you probably need to configure the web server to issue a vcal MIME header. Typepad won't let you do that, but you might want to post a support request and ask them to add it. It's trivial in Apache. The correct content type is text/x-vcal.
thanks,