URLs in details no longer work

[MichaelWednesday]

Hi!

First of all - I really love this app and I'm using it daily. Great job!

So my issue really is around URLs in calendar events. Before the last update, I was able to click a link in Itsycal and it would take me to the online meeting, but now the URLs are deformed and are no longer clickable. Special characters no longer work as well, so maybe there's an issue with encoding.

[sfsam]

The last update included a change to parse HTML in notes. That involved interpreting the note as UTF8. I've made a small change to that which I wonder if you could try out:

https://itsycal.s3.amazonaws.com/Itsycal-2019-06-25.zip

If it doesn't work, is there a way you could share an event that I could use for testing?

[MichaelWednesday]

Hi,

Sorry for the long delay! I've tested your release and it is definitely much better. UTF characters are displayed properly now. However, URLs are still not clickable. I've created an *.ics event for you, available here:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/10baBWcMZBUrKu6U8LQqYQvQPwl-Q1rQo/view?usp=sharing

Really all it has is a URL in the description. I hope this helps.

[sfsam]

Thank you. I imported the event into my calendar, but it seems to work. It opens my browser at github. Maybe something was lost in the process of importing the event? When you import this event, what happens when you click it?

[espen]

I'm seeing this issue with emails from Microsoft Teams. Example where notes is cut at the URL:

Hello meeting message

________________________________________________________________________________
Join Microsoft Teams Meeting<https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_N24NDZh%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22T22a%22%7d>
+47 21 40 20 58<tel:+47%2021%2040%2020%2058,,1337#>   Norway, Oslo (Toll)
Conference ID: 1337#
Local numbers<https://dialin.teams.microsoft.com/2c961d5?id=1337> | Reset PIN<https://mysettings.lync.com/pstnconferencing> | Learn more about Teams<https://aka.ms/JoinTeamsMeeting> | Meeting options<https://teams.microsoft.com/meetingOptions/?organizerId=9922a&tenantId=88@thread.v2&messageId=0&language=en-US>
________________________________________________________________________________

[sfsam]

@espen Could you provide a screenshot of what you are seeing in Itsycal? I don't have MS Teams so I'm not familiar with these messages.

[espen]

In other calendars (Fastmail webapp) the links appear.

Looking at the code it is strange that the links are wrapped in angle brackets. I'm a bit unsure why or if there anything in ical spec that would require this.

[sfsam]

Right now, Itsycal interprets the note as HTML so that it can render notes made in a rich text editor (like Google Calendar) properly. The angle brackets in these notes are interpreted as HTML tags and thus don't appear. I'm stumped at the moment on how to resolve this.

[espen]

I understand. Are you using any html parser for this?

Does it display all html or what "rich text" will it show? Will it display images, tables etc?

The standard does indicate that this is a text field though, not html (1). I'm not sure what html calendar apps are setting in this value. If html is not widely used then perhaps just treat it as text and make links clickable.

Not sure if this is an issue for "just" emails from Microsoft (Teams and Skype) or something more generic.

1: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5545#section-3.8.1.5

[sfsam]

I don't know if you're still using Itsycal, but in case you are, I have tried to address the issue where links are embedded inside angle brackets. If you are still using the app, could you try this out and let me know if it works?

http://itsycal.s3.amazonaws.com/Itsycal-hidden-links.zip