582630 - appstorehq.com - sniffs for "pre" and refuses to load if present

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Web Compatibility :: Site Reports, defect)

Description

[Bret Reckard]

Developer Profile URL's for appstorehq do not load page content in minefield.

Example:
http://www.appstorehq.com/lukeshan-35039/developer

Seems fine in FFx3.6 and in Chrome.  Probably a site issue, but can someone take a look?

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This page doesn't load for me in nightlies going back to 2007.  I didn't test further.  Spoofing the Firefox 3.6 UA makes it work.  Also of interest:

% wget --user-agent "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:2.0b2pre) Gecko/20100717 Minefield/4.0b2pre" -O /dev/null 'http://www.appstorehq.com/lukeshan-35039/developer'
--2010-07-28 12:30:03--  http://www.appstorehq.com/lukeshan-35039/developer
Resolving www.appstorehq.com... 174.129.211.97
Connecting to www.appstorehq.com|174.129.211.97|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 406 Not Acceptable
2010-07-28 12:30:04 ERROR 406: Not Acceptable.

Removing the two instances of "pre" from the UA string makes things work, of course...

Comment 2

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

Bret: does this work in the 4.0 Beta? It should, if I'm understanding comment 1 correctly.

Comment 3

[Bret Reckard]

Does not load in:

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; rv:2.0b3pre) Gecko/20100728 Minefield/4.0b3pre

downloading beta now.

Comment 4

[Bret Reckard]

Loads fine in:

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; rv:2.0b2) Gecko/20100720 Firefox/4.0b2

false alarm?

Comment 5

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

This is still stupid site behaviour. If they're trying to exclude Palm Pre users, they should be sniffing specifically for the Pre's browser, not the generic string "pre".

Comment 6

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This is a _very_ common issue recently.  Can we stop using that string in our nightly UA?  :(

Comment 7

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

Not trivially, but yes, though I think that's a different bug - let's leave this one about tracking the TE for this site, please.

Comment 8

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Fair.  Filed bug 582672.

Comment 9

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

The web site doesn't exist anymore.
It redirects to http://www.mobiledevhq.com/?utm_medium=AppStoreHQ