Safari download ics link instead opening it in ical

when i click on a link which points to a ics-file safari downloads this file. i can open it and the event is imported in ical.
is there a way to tell safari to open it with ical?
the mime-type i am sending is "text/calendar".
firefox is able to send the ics file to ical.
i can use a webcal-link but then this is rather a subscription but this is not useful for a single event which i want to import in ical.
thanxs.
markus

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