Closed Bug 389201 Opened 17 years ago Closed 10 years ago

local.live.com redirects to nonfunctional intl.local.live.com for non-Firefox UA

Categories

(Web Compatibility :: Site Reports, defect)

Product:
Web Compatibility
Component:
Site Reports
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: svl-bmo, Unassigned)

References

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Details

http://local.live.com/ does stupid useragent sniffing. Faking my SeaMonkey UA to be Firefox gets the URL working. With the real useragent string I get redirected to an effectively nonfunctional "beta" "live local search" http://intl.local.live.com/
Yep, sure does. Blocks 334967 then.
Blocks: geckoisgecko
Going to this address now triggers http://www.bing.com/maps/

→ http --print hH http://local.live.com/
GET / HTTP/1.1
Accept: */*
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Host: local.live.com
User-Agent: HTTPie/0.8.0

HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Content-Length: 148
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 06:33:55 GMT
Location: http://www.bing.com/maps/
Server: Microsoft-IIS/8.0
X-BM-Srv: HK20280630
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET

Which in returns triggers content negotiation based on geolocation.
Assignee: english-us → nobody
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 10 years ago
Component: English US → Desktop
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
Product: Tech Evangelism → Web Compatibility
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