1083137 - slashdot.org does not serve mobile site to Firefox OS

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Web Compatibility :: Site Reports, defect, P5)

Description

[l.rsh2]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Mobile; rv:32.0) Gecko/32.0 Firefox/32.0
Build ID: 20141013200257

Steps to reproduce:

Go to slashdot org from a Firefox phone. Useragent Mozilla/5.0 (Mobile; rv:32.0) Gecko/32.0 Firefox/32.0. 


Actual results:

It loads the desktop version of the page.


Expected results:

mobile version of the page must load. 
Now reporting to slashdot [e-mail]
According to their FAQ  http://slashdot.org/faq

I'm having a problem with your mobile site; what should I do?

If you're having trouble viewing our mobile site, please view the Supported area above and ensure that your device meets these requirements. Also, ensure that JavaScript is enabled.

If you are still having trouble with our mobile site, please email [e-mail] with:

    The device you are using
    The OS version
    The browser name and version
    The problem you are experiencing

Comment 1

[l.rsh2]

This is the useragent reference page:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Gecko_user_agent_string_reference

Comment 2

[Mike Taylor [:miketaylr]]

I'm not able to reproduce on my end, from my device or from a raw HTTP request.

mtaylor at omg-2 in ~/tmp/tmp.noindex

Comment 3

[Mike Taylor [:miketaylr]]

Strange, my comment got swallowed. 

http --print=Hh GET http://slashdot.org User-Agent:"$FFA"
GET / HTTP/1.1
Accept: */*
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, compress
Host: slashdot.org
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Android; Mobile; rv:32.0) Gecko/32.0 Firefox/32.0

HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Age: 1
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length: 282
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 14:11:11 GMT
Location: http://m.slashdot.org
SLASH_LOG_DATA: shtml
Set-Cookie: TS01718c09=016920fe0df13ec06a03b3068e75eb9646607318320da03b49d8293d1ffcb00a3b4d6aa7d3; Path=/
X-Varnish: 1908959205 1908959197

Comment 4

[Mike Taylor [:miketaylr]]

Oops. My mistake--the issue is about Firefox OS:

GET / HTTP/1.1
Accept: */*
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, compress
Host: slashdot.org
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Mobile; rv:32.0) Gecko/32.0 Firefox/32.0

HTTP/1.1 200 OK

It would appear they're doing server side detection, probably looking for "Android." We should ask them to send Firefox OS users to the mobile site as well.

Comment 5

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

@l.rsh2
Did you report it to slashdot? :)

Comment 6

[l.rsh2]

@karlcow
>Did you report it to slashdot? :)

Reported + tweeted to slashdot.

Comment 7

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

Thanks a lot L.rsh2

Comment 8

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

Hmm this is not solved yet. 
http://slashdotmedia.com/ is the company which host the brands sourceforge and slashdot.org
All of this belongs to Dice Holdings.

Their twitter account is useless for hoping to get something solved. It's a bot broadcasting information. https://twitter.com/slashdot

In their FAQ,
http://slashdot.org/faq#mobile_supported_devices

>  We support:
>
>    All iOS devices running iOS 5 or newer.
>    All Android devices running Android 2.3 or newer.

That will be a tough battle. Given that the site is working on Firefox OS, like Firefox Android. It's just bad UA detection, not really support. The FAQ goes on saying:

>  If you are still having trouble with our mobile site, please email [e-mail] with:
>
>    The device you are using
>    The OS version
>    The browser name and version
>    The problem you are experiencing


But I have the feeling it will be a blackhole, address too generic with army of people to handle the flow of non relevant reports. 

Maybe a useful contact 
https://www.linkedin.com/in/inmanism
https://twitter.com/CodeStitch (not very active)

Comment 9

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

Closing as we are not working on Firefox OS anymore.