diff --git a/gcal-import-admin.php b/gcal-import-admin.php
index 0d33e6b..889d388 100644
--- a/gcal-import-admin.php
+++ b/gcal-import-admin.php
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ function gcal_geocoding_setting_string() {
                     ),             
                     array( 
                         'option' => 'official',
-                        'name' => 'Google official - in Entwicklung; erfordert einen API Key --> ',
+                        'name' => 'Google official - erfordert einen API Key --> ',
                     ),             
                     array( 
                         'option' => 'inofficial',
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ function gcal_geocoding_setting_string() {
         $checked = ( $current == $coder['option'] ? 'checked' : '' );
         echo '<input type="radio" id="gcal_geocoding" name="gcal_options[gcal_geocoding]" value ="' . $coder['option'] . '" ' . $checked . '> ' . $coder['name'];
         if ( $coder['option'] == 'official' ) {
-            echo '<input type="text" size="32" id="gcal_geocoding" name="gcal_options[gcal_apikey]" value="' . $apikey . '">';
+            echo '<input type="text" size="48" id="gcal_geocoding" name="gcal_options[gcal_apikey]" value="' . $apikey . '">';
         }
 
         echo '</br>' ;
diff --git a/gcal-import-geocode.php b/gcal-import-geocode.php
index b8c80be..6583dae 100644
--- a/gcal-import-geocode.php
+++ b/gcal-import-geocode.php
@@ -136,19 +136,22 @@ Suchen: if ( isset ( $options['geocache']['hashx'] ) ) ...
 
 function gcal_import_geocode_official($location) {
     $options = get_option('gcal_options');
-    $apikey = $options['apikey'];
-    if ( empty ($apikey) ) {  // ??? we should handle this in the admin frontend. 
+    if ( ! isset ( $options['gcal_apikey'] ) || '' == $options['gcal_apikey'] ) {  // ??? we should handle this in the admin frontend. 
         gcal_error_log ("WARN: using Google official geocoding but provided no APIKEY");
         return array ('','');
     } else {
+        $apikey = $options['gcal_apikey']; 
         $location = urlencode($location);
-
+        $useragent = 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:57.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/57.0';
         // https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geocoding/start
         $url = "https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=$location&key=$apikey"; 
-        $response = wp_remote_get($url);
-        $json = wp_remote_retrieve_body($response);
-        $http_code = wp_remote_retrieve_response_code($response);
-        // we need to catch errors, e.g. wrong APIKEY, like this: 
+
+        $response = curl_get_remote($url); 
+        $decoded = json_decode($response, true);
+        $lat = $decoded['results']['0']['geometry']['location']['lat']; 
+        $lon = $decoded['results']['0']['geometry']['location']['lng'];
+        gcal_error_log ("INFO: " . __FUNCTION__ . " found lat $lat lon $lon");
+        return array ($lat, $lon);
 /*
 {
    "error_message" : "The provided API key is invalid.",
@@ -156,13 +159,6 @@ function gcal_import_geocode_official($location) {
    "status" : "REQUEST_DENIED"
 }
 */
-
-        // https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.json-decode.php
-        $decoded = json_decode($json, true);
-        $file = dirname (__FILE__) . '/json-decoded.txt';
-        // should be results->geometry->location->lat/lng. 
-        file_put_contents ($file, var_export ($decoded, TRUE)); 
-        return array ('','');
     }
 }
 
diff --git a/gcal-import-worker.php b/gcal-import-worker.php
index 2a26535..1b7df6b 100644
--- a/gcal-import-worker.php
+++ b/gcal-import-worker.php
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ defined( 'ABSPATH' ) or die( 'No script kiddies please!' );
 // we'll set this as category => proxy, link => link, active => 0; 
 // in the admin page, all entries will be displayed with a checkbox for activating, deactivating, deleting. 
 
-require_once dirname ( __FILE__ ) . "/gcal-import-geocode.php"; 
+require_once __DIR__ . "/gcal-import-geocode.php"; 
 
 
 /**
@@ -100,16 +100,36 @@ The update and delete logic goes as follows:
 add_action( 'gcal_import_worker_hook', 'gcal_import_worker' );
 
 
-require_once dirname (__FILE__) . '/icalparser/src/IcalParser.php';
-require_once dirname (__FILE__) . '/icalparser/src/Recurrence.php';
-require_once dirname (__FILE__) . '/icalparser/src/Freq.php';
-require_once dirname (__FILE__) . '/icalparser/src/WindowsTimezones.php';
+require_once __DIR__ . '/icalparser/src/IcalParser.php';
+require_once __DIR__ . '/icalparser/src/Recurrence.php';
+require_once __DIR__ . '/icalparser/src/Freq.php';
+require_once __DIR__ . '/icalparser/src/WindowsTimezones.php';
+
+
+function curl_get_remote($url) {
+        $ch = curl_init(); 
+        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
+        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
+        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
+        $response = curl_exec($ch);
+        if  ( curl_errno($ch) ) {
+//             $info = curl_getinfo($ch);
+            $message = __FUNCTION__ . ": cURL error " . curl_error($ch); 
+//             gcal_error_log ("WARN: $message");
+            curl_close($ch);
+            throw new \RuntimeException($message);
+        } 
+        curl_close($ch);
+        // now we're sure we have a valid response: 
+        return ($response);
+}
+
 
 function gcal_import_do_import($category, $link) {
 
     $my_latlon = array('', '');
 	$cal = new \om\IcalParser();
-	$results = $cal->parseFile($link);
+	$results = $cal->parseString(curl_get_remote($link));
 
 // TODO: Fehlerbehandlung, wenn der Link kaputt ist. Muss graceful passieren. 
 // icalparser nutzt intern file_get_contents, und da kommt man nicht ohne weiteres ran. Evtl. ändern auf curl? 
@@ -286,13 +306,10 @@ function gcal_import_do_import($category, $link) {
                     // and update the _created field
                     update_post_meta ( $id, '_gcal_created', $lastmodified ); 
                     gcal_error_log ("INFO: updated post $post_id");
-                } elseif ( $lastmodified == $created ) { 
-                    // it was not modified after we created it, so we only update the recent tag. 
                 } elseif ( $lastmodified < $created ) {
                     // iiiiek! A time reversal or a secret time machine! That should not happen! 
                     gcal_error_log ("WARN: post $id last-modified : created $lastmodified < $created ");
-                }
-                // and set the event to recent = true no matter what. 
+                } // else both are equal, and we do nothing except setting recent to true. 
                 update_post_meta ( $id, '_gcal_recent', 'true' ); 
             }
         } else {