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5.8. SOURCE Property

Property Name

SOURCE

Purpose

This property identifies a URI where calendar data can be refreshed from.

Value Type

URI -- no default

Property Parameters

IANA and non-standard property parameters can be specified on this property.

Conformance

This property can be specified once in an iCalendar object.

Description

This property identifies a location where a client can retrieve updated data for the calendar. Clients SHOULD honor any specified "REFRESH-INTERVAL" value when periodically retrieving data. Note that this property differs from the "URL" property in that "URL" is meant to provide an alternative representation of the calendar data rather than the original location of the data.

Format Definition

This property is defined by the following notation:

 source       = "SOURCE" sourceparam ":" uri CRLF

 sourceparam = *(";" other-param)

Example

The following is an example of this property

 SOURCE;VALUE=URI:https://example.com/holidays.ics

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