I beg you to keep GET requests idempotent. It's not that hard.
Don't be a party pooper. This is just RPC via HTTP. ;)
Zerocal – A Serverless Calendar App in Rust
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Re: Zerocal – A Serverless Calendar App in Rust
#12I beg you to keep GET requests idempotent. It's not that hard.
Maybe I am missing something, but which GET is not idempotent?
Re: Zerocal – A Serverless Calendar App in Rust
#13I beg you to keep GET requests idempotent. It's not that hard.
There’s no state maintained on the server, so all requests made to it are idempotent.
Re: Zerocal – A Serverless Calendar App in Rust
#14I want to make sure I understand this:
You made a VCALENDAR generator with a web-accessible endpoint. It fills in the VCALENDAR with info passed in via URL parameters. And rather than returning a webpage, it just returns the VCALENDAR file.
So you send your friends the link, they click it, rather then returning text/html content, it returns a downloadable response consisting of a pre-filled VCALENDAR file with the correct MIME type, and .ics extension.
Do I have that right?
Re: Zerocal – A Serverless Calendar App in Rust
#15I want to make sure I understand this: You made a VCALENDAR generator with a web-accessible endpoint. It fills in the VCALENDAR with info passed in via URL parameters. And rather than returning a webpage, it just returns the VCALENDAR file. So you send your friends the link, they click it, rather then returning text/html content, it returns a downloadable response consisting of a pre-filled VCALENDAR file with the co…
That's correct.
Re: Zerocal – A Serverless Calendar App in Rust
#16Author here, had a lot of fun building this as it's just ~100 lines of Rust code + some CSS/HTML. If someone is looking for a fun thing to contribute to during Hacktoberfest, the code is on Github: https://github.com/mre/zerocal Will mainly use it for myself to send out event links to friends.
FYI: the text on your blog post is cropped on my small screen (iPhone SE), and scrolling doesn’t even help, so its essentially unreadable.
Thanks for the info. I thought I fixed that lately [1].
I don't have an iPhone to test it with but I'll see what I can do.
At least on the Chrome viewport emulator it looks fine to me...
https://github.com/mre/endler.dev/commit/bc1187d290d153455b0...
Re: Zerocal – A Serverless Calendar App in Rust
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Re: Zerocal – A Serverless Calendar App in Rust
#18I want to make sure I understand this: You made a VCALENDAR generator with a web-accessible endpoint. It fills in the VCALENDAR with info passed in via URL parameters. And rather than returning a webpage, it just returns the VCALENDAR file. So you send your friends the link, they click it, rather then returning text/html content, it returns a downloadable response consisting of a pre-filled VCALENDAR file with the co…
Do you even need a service for this? Couldn't this be a simple static HTML + minimal JS that opens a base64 URL with content-type "text/x-vcalendar"?
Re: Zerocal – A Serverless Calendar App in Rust
#19Looks cool but...why not just send the .ics file directly via your IM of choice? Am I missing something here? I don't see the benefit if you still have to click, open file in your calendar, add it to the calendar.
Can you tell me why the above wouldn't work and why this is better?
Re: Zerocal – A Serverless Calendar App in Rust
#20Speaking of zerocal, have you ever noticed that low calorie packaged foods like pickles and cauliflower will put tiny serving sizes on the package so they can advertise 0 calories? I think they round down to zero when it's less than 5 calories.