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Backslashes (Escaped slashes) in URL's on imports from google
Describe the bug
I'd import my addresslist from Google.
On Google I've exported it as VCARD :
If I import those vcs file into nextcloud/contacts, all / are escaped:
If I look into the vcs, I see, that slashes are also escaped there, but only once:
It would be nice, if contact could recognize such escape characters, and remove them
Steps to reproduce
- Create an address entry with an http://xyz.com in your google contacts
- Export an addressbook as VCS from Google
- Import it to nextcloud contacts
- see error in contacts address entry
Expected behavior
slashes should not be escaped in contacts
Actual behavior
slashes are escaped
Contact version
4.1.0
Operating system
didn't found.. as it's a managed one by hetzner. BTW, isn't there a way to see that in nextcloud gui?
PHP engine version
No response
Web server
No response
Database
No response
Operating system
No response
List of activated Apps
Can't run this command.
I do have an managed service on Hetnzer: https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share?country=de
So I don't have access to the server below.
Couldn't you create such an URL to output those list like the following section "Nextcloud Signing status"?: https://yournextcloud.tld/index.php/settings/integrity/failed
That would make things easier for bugreporters.
Nextcloud Signing status
No errors have been found.
Configuration report
Same here as above, no access to cli.
Additional info
No response
Until there will be a bugfix for that issue, I fixed it with a dirty, but simple trick: In the big vCard-file (.vcf) with all the contacts from Google Contacts I replaced every
https\://
with
https://
and the same for http. Took me 10 seconds.
And after that I've imported the contacts without any problems.
Addresses from google have a possibly related issue. "\n" and a lot of semicolons that are directly added as such in the text on nextcloud contacts. for example ";;123 Test Ave;Toronto, ON H0H 0H0\nCA" is found under imported contacts, all under a single line.
Right now the best interoperability option seems to be to use nextcloud to create and edit all contacts and import into google, as they seem to import the nextcloud exports properly but not the other way around.
Edit: This seems to not always be the case. Perhaps it is something with how Google has changed their contact storage formats over the years or something but I have a different contact that imported properly and didn't contain the \n characters in the vcard export from Google.
