1001451 - economist.com sends desktop site to Firefox OS

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Web Compatibility :: Site Reports, defect)

Description

[Hallvord R. M. Steen [:hallvors]]

The economist.com site detect mobile/desktop browsers on the backend and sends either a simplified lighter site or a full desktop version. Unfortunately, it fails to detect Firefox OS devices as smartphones.

Significant difference in source code:
Response sent to Firefox on Android and Safari on iPhone has Content-Length: 111694. Response sent to Firefox OS has Content-Length: 186460


Selected HTTP response headers (Firefox OS, Firefox on Android, Safari on iPhone):

Response for: 'Mozilla/5.0 (Mobile; rv:30) Gecko/30 Firefox/30'
Response Status: 200
content-length: 186460
content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8

Response for: 'Mozilla/5.0 (Android; Mobile; rv:26.0) Gecko/26.0 Firefox/26.0'
Response Status: 200
content-length: 111694
content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8

Response for: 'Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 6_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/536.26 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/6.0 Mobile/10A5376e Safari/8536
Response Status: 200
content-length: 111694
content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8

Comment 1

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

The Economist is part of the economist group
http://www.economistgroup.com/

Their twitter account is only broadcasting information @theeconomist so not a good contact.

Possibilities for contacts (corporate):
* http://www.economist.com/content/subscription-centre#digital
* https://secure.opinionlab.com/ccc01/comment_card_d.asp
* http://www.economist.com/contact-us

A possible human contact:
Dominic Laycock
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/dominic-laycock/8/2a/610
@dtlaycock

Comment 2

[Adam Stevenson [:adamopenweb]]

Thanks Karl. Trying to reach on twitter: https://twitter.com/MozWebCompat/status/476100857243918337

Comment 3

[Hallvord R. M. Steen [:hallvors]]

Seems sorted - congrats, Adam!

Comment 4

[Hallvord R. M. Steen [:hallvors]]

unfortunately I closed the wrong bug here, economist.com still needs fixing :(

Comment 5

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

Testing on Firefox OS. Receiving the mobile version.

There is an overlay for the cookie policy. The button Close is not working. 
Someone else with the same issue? If yes let's open another bug.