"Couldn't parse iCalendar object" error message

acu

Hi,

“Couldn’t parse iCalendar object” error message with following URL:
http://www.webcal.fi/cal.php?id=180&format=ics&wrn=1&wp=4&wf=53&color=%23FF3100&cntr=fr&lang=fr&rid=wc
Found here:
http://www.webcal.fi/fr-FR/abonnement_manuel.php#populaires

Worked very well so far…

Config:
Android 9
ICSX⁵ 1.8.4 (38)

Thanks for help

rfc2822

Hello,

Is this error permanent (every time when you refresh) or does it only occur sometimes?

acu

Permanent error
Couldn’t even add this url again after erasing it from ICSx⁵
Same error message every time

rfc2822

Hi,

Thanks for the report. Seems to happen for my webcal.fi calendars too, so I think there were some changes at the server… Do you know whether they have a forum or something like that?

acu

@rfc2822 Doesn’t seem to be any existing forum…
Only this email address
info@webcal.fi
found here:
http://www.webcal.fi/en-US/help.php

acu

@rfc2822 ICSx⁵ doesn’t appear in supported applications:
http://www.webcal.fi/en-US/supported_applications.php

“If you use an application not on the list, please send feedback to info@webcal.fi on whether or not it works with WebCal.”

rfc2822

@acu It was never listed there. They have linked it here: http://www.webcal.fi/en-US/mobile.php but with its old name. ICSdr*** must not be said anymore because it sounds like a well-known mobile operating system, so I’ll write them anyway.

I’ll have a look into why it doesn’t work at the moment.

acu

@rfc2822 OK thanks… keep up the good work

rfc2822

One can see the same error message on ICalendar validator: Parser error at line 54: Expected [VCALENDAR], read [VEVENT]

I don’t know yet what’s the exact problem is, but there are strange lines:

BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//WebCal.fi//NONSGML iCalendar Creator 6.0 (2019-07
 -28)//DE
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-MS-OLK-FORCEINSPECTOROPEN:FALSE
X-WR-CALNAME:Mond
X-WR-RELCALID;VALUE=TEXT:9E1DBD86-5D16-451C-A886-E4BAC617A7
 63@webcal.fi
X-WR-CALDESC;VALUE=TEXT:Mondphasen (Neumond\, Erstes Vierte
 l\, Vollmond\, Letztes Viertel)\, Erdnähe (wenn der Mond de
 r Erde am nächsten ist) und Erdferne (wenn der Mond am weit
 esten weg von der Erde ist). Aktualisierung wöchentlich.
X-PUBLISHED-TTL;VALUE=TEXT:P1W
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:P1W
X-OWNER;VALUE=TEXT:CN="Aapo Puskala":mailto:info@webcal.fi
X-APPLE-CALENDAR-COLOR:#666666
X-OUTLOOK-COLOR:#666666
X-FUNAMBOL-COLOR:#666666
X-LOTUS-CHARSET:UTF-8
!!! <center><h1>302 Found</h1></center>          !!! these 3 lines don't look normal
!!! <hr><center>nginx/1.12.2</center>            !!!
!!! </body>                                      !!!
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:5642647E-9294-4462-AEAE-C8EB91742EBA@webcal.fi
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190728
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190729
X-FUNAMBOL-ALLDAY:1
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE
CLASS:PUBLIC
SUMMARY;LANGUAGE=de:Kalender Mond beginnt. Dieser Kalender
 zeigt 3 Wochen zurück in die Vergangenheit.
DESCRIPTION;LANGUAGE=de:Kalender Mond beginnt. Dieser Kalen
 der zeigt 3 Wochen zurück in die Vergangenheit.
X-ALT-DESC;LANGUAGE=de;FMTTYPE=text/html:<!DOCTYPE html PUB
 LIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/T
 R/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"><html><head><title>Kalender
  Mond beginnt. Dieser Kalender zeigt 3 Wochen zurück in die
  Vergangenheit.</title></head><body><p>Kalender Mond beginn
 t. Dieser Kalender zeigt 3 Wochen zurück in die Vergangenhe
 it.</p><p><a href='http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondphase'>
 Mond</a></p></body></html>
URL:http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondphase
CONTACT:Aapo Puskala\, info@webcal.fi
TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-BUSYSTATUS:FREE
STATUS:CONFIRMED
PRIORITY:5
SEQUENCE:3511
CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190812T011607Z
LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190812T011607Z
DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190812T011607Z
!!! END:VEVENT          !!! this is line 54
BEGIN:VEVENT

Maybe the BEGIN:VEVENT couldn’t be parsed because of the three lines before.

rfc2822

I have sent a message to webcal.fi to ask whether these lines are intentional.

acu

@rfc2822 looks like there’s something wrong with nginx layout…

acu

Hi,

Today I tried again with same URL and everything is working properly, no more error message…
Does it work for you too?

rfc2822

@acu Works here again, too. I’ll set this to solved.

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