Question: How to escape a cr/lf character for browser type custom actions

[henriwahl]

Question: How to escape a cr/lf character for browser type custom actions

[HenriWahl]

Does it work without that escapes? Is the result the same with different browsers?

[DoGauss]

I've tested it with every browser at my disposal: IE10, FF22, Chrome 22, opera 12
they all work as I'd expect it: %0d%0a causes a new line in the mail body.

It seem as if nagstamon would prevent the correct parsing of the escape sequences.
If I had to make an educated guess, I'd say the complete action string get's URL encoded before execution and thus breaking the ability to use escape sequences - that would mean: no chance of having new lines in emails.

of course: creating emails this way without new lines works just fine

[HenriWahl]

I played with your example and found it not working with &subject but ?subject.

Line 651-656 in Actions.py:

def _URLify(self, string):
    """
    return a string that fulfills requirements for URL
    exclude several chars
    """
    return urllib.quote(string, ":/=?&@")

So yes URLs get cleaned.

I tested Browser URLs without that _URLify() and it works as you expected. Obviously the browsers could URLify the URLS themselves and this method should not be needed here.

[DoGauss]

Thanks for clarifying.

nonetheless thanks for pointing out a syntactical error. the mailto protocol expects a question mark as separator between the first argument (most often the to field) and other arguments. additional parameters are linked with an ampersand.

[HenriWahl]

I think your way to send emails should work in future version - next github commit to be exact.