Publish a web-viewable password-protected calendar?

Is there any way to publish a web-viewable password-protected calendar?
There is info here about publishing to your iDisk w/ password protection:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61725
But I need something that doesn't require iCal to access! For instance something that I could access via a web browser on a public computer, and would have to input a password to access.
Is this possible, or is this a missing functionality?

Hi UniAce, apparently in one of the recent versions of iCal you can now publish your ICS file (from iCal 'publish' command) onto a private server that is not WebDav... which was the requirement in the past.
View your iCalendar on the web
Here is a link to a program called PHP iCalendar that basically uses your ICS file that you've 'published' via iCal and makes it into a viewable HTML calendar.
My problem with it
I don't have .Mac and haven't tried it with that, but even though the program works great after a bit of installation (you should be comfortable with HTML editing to use PHP iCalendar, but not necessarily PHP) I could not get iCal to export my ICS file properly – it appeasr to upload properly in iCal, but then the file is 0 bytes on the server which is, in turn, making PHP iCalendar have a problem viewing it.
How I got around it
I ended up finding the 'resource' file that had my calendar and setup an automator action that locates that file, copies it to a location on my hard drive, renames it then 'opens' it with a Transmit droplet, which uploads it where I want it.
Hope this helps, let me know if it's something that may work for you.
12 PB G4, 1.33Ghz, 1.25 RAM Mac OS X (10.4.6)

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I read the various help resources in OS 10.4.11 and online and can't seem to figure out if a calendar can be shared with password protection so that anyone using a web browser who knows the password only can access it. From what I've read, Apple says I can post the calendar to a private (presumably password protected) website, but while users can subscribe to it using iCal, they won't be able to read it with a web browser which sort of defeats sharing it privately over multiple OS platforms.
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Thanks for your help -- I'm not an expert by any means -- this is my first website... just wanting to put up a family website to share with friends & people I know.
OK, the url is http://www.hickorytech.net/~rmgrazi/
Right now I just have a blank page up that says "test website"
My .htaccess file is located in /rmgrazi/public_html/ (yes, I put it inside the public folder in order to password protect my whole site).
By the way I'm using TextEdit in OS X, so when I upload the original file with Fetch, it looks like htaccess.txt -- after it's uploaded (as text, not binary of course) then I simply change the name to .htaccess
My .htaccess file includes the following:
AuthUserFile /rmgrazi/.htpasswd
AuthName Members Area
AuthType Basic
Require valid-user
Then I uploaded the .htpasswd one level up to /rmgrazi/ like it says in .htaccess.
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I tried using the Terminal application in OS X panther to see if the server path needs to be longer -- I logged into my ftp.hickorytech.net and entered "pwd" -- that command is supposed to show the server path. /rmgrazi/public_html/ are the only folders I can see. "/" is as far back as it will show.
In Fetch I can change the permissions for .htaccess and .htpasswd by clicking Get Info -- I tried all different combinations, 644, 711, etc... Maybe my permissions are set wrong?

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I seem to be having a problem password protecting a web directory. I have my .htpasswd file and all of my directory info set up in my httpd.conf file but when I go to this directory via the web, I get prompted for a username and password but when I enter my username and the password that is in my .htpasswd file, it simply keeps prompting me for my password as if the user or the password is incorrect. Can anyone give me any hints as to how I can fix this?

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hi. glad you got it working. as for setting the permissions...
for our server, which is FreeBSD but essentially no different, i setup basic auth directories as follows:
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now, the auth method of the webserver should be able to determine who has read access to the files. in your case, this is for the user 'lmcilwain'. e.g. only the user entering the proper credentials into the authorization box should be able to view the files (at least through their browser).
remember, too, that basic auth passes passwords in plain-text, so if bad people want to intercept your password and username, they can do this if they really want to.
that being said, basic auth is ok for things like pdf documents and whatnot. i wouldn't put anything terribly important in a directory 'protected' by basic auth, however.
cheers,
b
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