1099174 - alibaba.com sends simplified site to Firefox OS

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

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

Description

[Konstantin A. Lepikhov]

Maybe that was desired but anyway, FxOS could handle much powerful layout.

Comment 1

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

This site intends to send mobile browsers to a mobile site, but doesn't know that Firefox OS devices are smartphones. Hence the browser on Firefox OS phones get desktop content instead of mobile.

The HTTP traffic analysis below shows how the sniffing works: per the content-length header the server sends different amounts of markup to the iPhone browser compared to Firefox OS and Firefox on Android.

GET http://m.alibaba.com/ HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Mobile; rv:29.0) Gecko/29.0 Firefox/29.0

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8
Content-Length: 11854

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GET http://m.alibaba.com/ HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Android; Mobile; rv:26.0) Gecko/26.0 Firefox/26.0

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8
Content-Length: 11854

------------------------------------------------------------------
GET http://m.alibaba.com/ HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: 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
Content-Length: 13257

------------------------------------------------------------------

I've verified that the content renders OK when Firefox gets the same markup as the iPhone.

Comment 2

[Konstantin A. Lepikhov]

I think we could remove this site too from watchlist, because it's not russian site but chinese (yes, it's popular in Russia too but mostly for desktop users).

Comment 3

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

OK, I've removed it from the list that goes on arewecompatibleyet.com (change will go live next time I update the site). It was good to get this reported anyway since it's an important site :)

Comment 4

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

Dependent on Bug 960035. 
I just tested and received the Mobile simplified version on Firefox OS, note that in the past we were receiving the desktop version only.

Comment 5

[xshen]

Already contact taobao, but they don't have plan to fix it in short time.

Comment 6

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

Closing as we are not working on Firefox OS anymore.