ICQ does not understand a Spotify URI/HTTP link received from official ICQ client application

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It would be very handy if Miranda had Spotify URI/HTTP link recognition
compatible with the current version of the original ICQ application. When a
Spotify link (both URI and HTTP) is sent from the official ICQ client,
instead of receiving it as a link, Miranda shows the message as text: the
name of the song and the album. This is of course relatively easy to
copy-paste to Spotify, but not very practical.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by wolan...@gmail.com on 8 Feb 2010 at 1:56

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Original comment by sami%mir...@gtempaccount.com on 8 Feb 2010 at 7:08

• Changed state: Assigned
• Added labels: Component-Protocol-ICQ

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Shouldnt it be assigned to the message windows? URLs are transmitted as plain 
text,
the message window has to make it clickable

Original comment by wishmaster51 on 10 Feb 2010 at 10:39

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it is related to issue 281

Original comment by wishmaster51 on 10 Feb 2010 at 10:40

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Hmm. I was too hasty with deleting the comment. Anyway, I just tested and don't 
see
anything that could identify the message as a Spotify URI unless ICQ tells that 
it is
somehow.

Original comment by sami%mir...@gtempaccount.com on 10 Feb 2010 at 7:21

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We both talk about
http://www.spotify.com/blog/archives/2008/01/14/linking-to-spotify/

"Spotify URIs  look like this: spotify:artist:5lsC3H1vh9YSRQckyGv0Up "

??

It does not matter if you send it via ICQ, MSN or whatever, the message window 
has to
make it clickable...

it is like ed2k, http, ftp, gopher, whatever other URI, so it is related to 
issue 281 ..

Original comment by wishmaster51 on 10 Feb 2010 at 11:04

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The only thing that is confusing to me is that the reporter talks about URI AND 
HTTP
Links since HTTP-Links like 
http://open.spotify.com/artist/5lsC3H1vh9YSRQckyGv0Up
(from the example page) should work like any other HTTP link

So the reporter should clearify what is wrong with HTTP Links...

Original comment by wishmaster51 on 10 Feb 2010 at 11:08

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I agree that issue 281 is also one that should be implemented, however, this 
case is
not strictly related to that one.

When the user of the ICQ 7 client sends me a message containing:
http://open.spotify.com/track/3GW2jO0BwzqNPNZ1heofva
or
spotify:track:3GW2jO0BwzqNPNZ1heofva

all I receive to Miranda is:
Blue Railroad Train - Jorma Kaukonen

And this is as text, not clickable. I haven't tried this between two ICQ 7, but
obviously it somehow cracks the Spotify link open so that the link gets 
track/album
as a description that is shown to the receiver instead of the original rather
uninformative URI. Thus, the original link gets lost on the way from ICQ 7 to 
Miranda
and only the description arrives.

Original comment by wolan...@gmail.com on 11 Feb 2010 at 12:12

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WHAT? You send http://open.spotify.com/track/3GW2jO0BwzqNPNZ1heofva OR
spotify:track:3GW2jO0BwzqNPNZ1heofva from ICQ7 and you RECEIVE "Blue Railroad 
Train -
Jorma Kaukonen" in Miranda??????

Thats strange, does ICQ7 have any special spotify support I am not aware of???

Original comment by wishmaster51 on 11 Feb 2010 at 6:07

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Precisely :) I just recalled that actually this behavior isn't completely 
unique,
because at least Facebook and Google Wave have similar features.

I installed ICQ 7 and checked what actually happens, so this is how it goes:

Spotify link Miranda -> ICQ 7
Shows as regular link (URI link is not clickable)

ICQ 7 -> ICQ 7 
On the same moment I paste the Spotify link to the message field, it converts 
to a
link that has the track and artist as description. It is received like that on 
the
other ICQ 7 - and can be clicked. 

ICQ 7 <-> ICQ 7 never shows the original Spotify URI/HTTP link, just the 
description.
The conversion happens before sending the message, because the same doesn't work
Miranda->ICQ 7.

Original comment by wolan...@gmail.com on 11 Feb 2010 at 8:46