Deleting and Publishing ical Calendar with AppleScript

I have a question I hope somebody can help me with.
Thanks to a previous manager, we're stuck with Microsoft Project for our product release scheduled management. It has no capability for exporting the information into an iCal format for publication on our web dav server (so that sales reps, programmers, and techs can view it). I've made a BBEdit script that can take a tab delimited export of the crucial information from Project and make it into an importable iCal file.
I'd like to find a way to delete the old iCal calendar, import the replacement and publish it using the same script. Unfortunately my Applescript skills are minimal; the BBEdit recorder has made it so easy to do most of what I need that I haven't had to learn all the rules for making a script.
If anyone knows if this can be done, and how, and could help, I'd really appreciate it.

Alf,
I don't see a list of available calendars, so I think one needs the name of the calendar to access it. Is this correct?
You are partially correct, the only protection that you have in this case is the fact that anyone who wishes to access a specific published calendar has to either know or guess the username/calendar_name combination.
According to Apple: If your iCal calendars contain private or confidential information, you should not publish them on .Mac. Anyone who knows your calendar's URL can subscribe to it using iCal or view it using a web browser.
In order to prevent unauthorized access Publishing a password-protected iCal calendar to iDisk, offers a viable secure alternative.
;~)

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Message was edited by: Pintom1

Pintom1 wrote:
This works GREAT, however, I noticed when I'm at work and work has a proxy server for FTP I cannot connect to my domain and update - publish to my private server doesn't happen.
Would anyone know how to make ICal use a proxy? Having the proxy in the Network Prefs under FTP and the box checked does not work. Both passive and unpassive does not make a difference.
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I can get the calendars no problem. I know there is an HTTP proxy but ICal seems to be able to get through this fine?
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Message was edited by: Pintom1
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