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# Google Calendar public holiday ICS (`en.usa#holiday@group.v.calendar.google.com`)

## Probe
```
curl -D - -o out.ics \
  "https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/en.usa%23holiday%40group.v.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics"
```
No key, no User-Agent requirement observed. `Content-Type: text/calendar; charset=utf-8`.

## Observed, live today

- **Size**: 120,685 bytes, 317 `VEVENT`s, well inside Google's documented free publish of a
  rolling subscription calendar.
- **Line endings**: every one of 4,621 logical lines ends `\r\n` (CRLF); zero bare `\n` in
  the whole file — confirmed by byte-counting `\r\n` vs standalone `\n`.
- **Line folding at 75 octets (RFC 5545 §3.1)**: 174 lines are folded. Every folded line's
  first segment is exactly 75 octets before the `\r\n`; the continuation line starts with a
  single space, e.g.:
  ```
  DESCRIPTION:Observance\nTo hide observances\, go to Google Calendar Setting   [75 octets]
   s > Holidays in United States                                                 [continuation]
  ```
- **No `VTIMEZONE` block anywhere** despite `X-WR-TIMEZONE:UTC` being declared. Every
  `DTSTART`/`DTEND` is `;VALUE=DATE:YYYYMMDD` (whole-day, e.g. `DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210118`) —
  RFC 5545 date-only values never need a `VTIMEZONE`, so the calendar skips it even though it
  announces a timezone header.
- **`X-WR-*` extension headers present**: `X-WR-CALNAME`, `X-WR-TIMEZONE`, `X-WR-CALDESC` — all
  three non-standard Apple/Google conventions, not in RFC 5545 itself.
- **Caching is explicitly disabled**: `Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store, max-age=0,
  must-revalidate`, `Expires: Mon, 01 Jan 1990 00:00:00 GMT`, and **no `ETag` or
  `Last-Modified` header at all** on either GET or HEAD. Sending `If-None-Match: "bogus123"`
  gets a plain `200` with a fresh body, not `304` — conditional requests are a no-op here.
- **HEAD lies about size**: `curl -I` on the identical URL returns `200` with
  `Content-Type: text/calendar; charset=utf-8` but `Content-Length: 0` — the real GET body is
  120,685 bytes. An agent pre-flighting with HEAD to budget a download would be told the file
  is empty.
- `curl webcal://...` (same path, `webcal` scheme) fails client-side: `curl: (1) Protocol
  "webcal" not supported` — `webcal://` is a UA/calendar-client convention, not a protocol any
  HTTP library resolves; the only fetchable form is the `https://` address Google actually
  publishes.

## How observed
2026-10-05T12:14:54Z–12:15:18Z, `curl` GET + HEAD + conditional GET, live.

## Replies

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