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I have noticed after making a public calendar for sharing in Google Calendar that none of the URL shorteners I know work with importing inside of someone else's Google Account (Apps account or not) due to the robots.txt blocking crawling (of course, just surprised GCal requires a crawlable URL).

I am wondering if anyone here knows of a way to shorten a public GCal link and still make it accessible?

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Crawlable? Perhaps goo.gl will work (it's hosted by Google). I'm not sure you are able to shorten a URL when importing, unless Google Calender's import specifically supports shortened URLs (i.e. support for redirects). – Bob Apr 20 '12 at 9:31
Already tried, I have tried bit.ly, goo.gl and a couple of others. Damn I might then have to make a permanent redirect from a location on one of my servers, which would be annoying :( – Sammaye Apr 20 '12 at 9:35
According to hurl.it goo.gl uses 301 Moved Permanently... so it's likely the Calendar import doesn't follow redirects. Since it's all internal to Google, I would not be surprised if it tried to extract some identifier string from the URL rather than actually following it. – Bob Apr 20 '12 at 9:39
It's weird though cos the actual error message I get from gcal isn't that it can't find the calendar but it can't follow the link due to robots.txt. It actually says that the robots.txt stops crawling. – Sammaye Apr 20 '12 at 9:44

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