410799 - starbucks.com - XML parsing errors for Gecko browsers except Firefox

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[steveo]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071128 Camino/1.5.4
Build Identifier: Version 2007112812 (1.5.4)

Get a condesending "Oops!
Browser version does not meet minimum requirements" upon loading this page.

User agent is 
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071128 Camino/1.5.4

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to URL using specified browser
2.
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Obviously a result of non-portable web page design.  Boo!

Comment 1

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

Does it work if you spoof as Firefox? I'm betting it does.

Comment 2

[steveo]

Yes -- it does (I should have mentioned).

Comment 3

[steveo]

here's what the page suggests (gack):

Browser version does not meet minimum requirements

Internet Explorer
Instructions for installing updated Internet Explorer
Click here to download and install Internet Explorer 6.x

Firefox
Instructions for installing updated Firefox
Click here to download and install Firefox 2.x

Safari
Instructions for installing updated Safari
Click here to download and install Safari 2.x

Comment 4

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

Yeah, I figured. I bet it doesn't work with Seamonkey either. (Wanna test that for us?)

I think it's safe to confirm this. Please let the webmaster know if you haven't already, and feel free to point the Starbucks folks to this bug. They should, at minimum, be sniffing for "Gecko" rather than "Firefox".

Comment 5

[steveo]

> (Wanna test that for us?)

Uh, not really, but I did it anyway :)

Confirmed; same behavior as above on 
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071128 SeaMonkey/1.1.7

I emailed the starbucks webmaster this morning via their web form, but I will follow up with the Gecko tip and the link to this page.

Comment 6

[OstGote!]

Same for SeaMonkey on Win.

Comment 7

[David E. Ross]

Is this a duplicate of bug 406164?  Or perhaps, is this a better problem statement and thus 406164 the duplicate?  

Comment 8

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

(In reply to comment #7)
> Is this a duplicate of bug 406164?  Or perhaps, is this a better problem
> statement and thus 406164 the duplicate?  

It doesn't appear to be, although they're probably both caused by bad sniffing (possibly even the same script on the site). At least in this case, you get a "your browser is old" page, whereas with bug 406164, you get...nothing.

Comment 9

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

This has gotten worse now, as Sam just discovered by accident.

Without Firefox in the UA, starbucks.com is serving Gecko malformed XHTML, which dies with various XML parser errors/yellow screen of death.  (Tested both www.starbucks.com and the URL in the URL field.)

Comment 10

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

Problem not found
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:22.0) Gecko/20100101 SeaMonkey/2.19; Build ID: 20130628213754