1019179 - cnni.com sends desktop site to Firefox OS and Firefox on Android

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Web Compatibility :: Site Reports, defect)

Description

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

The cnni.com site intends to send mobile browsers a "mobile" version, and desktop browsers a "desktop" version. Unfortunately it's not configured to detect Firefox OS devices as smartphones.

The HTTP analysis below (selected headers quoted) shows how the sniffing works:

Response for 'Mozilla/5.0 (Mobile; rv:18.0) Gecko/18.0 Firefox/18.0'


HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8
X-UA-Profile: desktop
Content-Length: 121890

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/8536.25'

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8
X-UA-Profile: iphone
Content-Length: 25926



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Comment 1

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

Attachment: www.cnni.com comparison screenshot

Comment 2

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

to note that http://cnn.com/ sends Firefox OS to http://cnnmobile.com/

Comment 3

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

Trying to send email to my previous contact. Not switching yet to sitewait because I don't know yet if it will be working.

Comment 4

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

And I didn't get an answer. I need to find a better contact.

Comment 5

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

Contacted someone from CNN today about it.

Comment 6

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Can't speak about FxOS but they just rolled out a new responsive design site over New Years and it works in Firefox for Android.

Resolved?

Comment 7

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

Working in Firefox OS too, because of the responsive design.