Listing 1. static-calendar.py, a simple CGI program in Python to
open an iCalendar file and send it by HTTP.

#!/usr/bin/python

# Grab the CGI module
import cgi

# Log any problems that we might have
import cgitb
cgitb.enable(display=0, logdir="/tmp")

# Where is our calendar file?
calendar_directory = '/usr/local/apache2/calendars/'
calendar_file = calendar_directory + 'test.ics'

# Send a content-type header to the user's browser
print "Content-type: text/calendar\n\n"

# Send the contents of the file  to the browser
calendar_filehandle = open(calendar_file, "rb")
print calendar_filehandle.read()
calendar_filehandle.close()