Closed Bug 827622 Opened 12 years ago Closed 6 years ago

bing.com doesn't recognize Firefox OS UA as mobile

Categories

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

Product:
Web Compatibility
Component:
Site Reports
Platform:
ARM
Gonk (Firefox OS)
Type:
defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: lmandel, Assigned: karlcow)

References

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Details

(Whiteboard: [uaoverride] [country-all] [sitewait] [serversniff])

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bing.com serves a desktop site to B2G. Bug 819210 added an UA override for this domain. The override should be removed once the domain serves mobile content to B2G. This bug tracks the evangelism for the site to recognize the B2G UA and the removal of the override at that time.
Blocks: bing.com
Whiteboard: [uaoverride]
I think I will contact them.
[edit:] I just contacted support, waiting for a response...
Lawrence, do you know the entry point that we are using? Are we using bing.com or m.bing.com.
The issue is that on Firefox OS bing.com does not redirect to m.bing.com.
It is not anymore a question of redirection to the mobile site. But Content negotiation on the server side. With UA override on ZTE device (Firefox OS) http://www.bing.com/ displays mobile content. Without UA override on ZTE device (Firefox OS) http://www.bing.com/ displays desktop content. There is no redirection. HTTP requests with HEAD are not working properly so this not a good test. When the mobile content is sent, there is a meta name in HTML, plus a few JavaScript dedicated to mobile. <meta name="mobileoptimized" content="0"/>
Assignee: nobody → kdubost
URL: http://www.bing.com/
Whiteboard: [uaoverride] → [uaoverride] [country-all] [sitewait] [serversniff]
@Jason do you any specific information from the person you have contacted? May I try with someone else?
Flags: needinfo?(jsmith)
(In reply to Karl Dubost from comment #6) > @Jason > > do you any specific information from the person you have contacted? May I > try with someone else? I didn't ever do outreach for bing. I think you meant to put needinfo on Josh here.
Flags: needinfo?(jsmith)
Flags: needinfo?(joshua-smith)
doh sorry about that.
Hey Carl, that would be great. I have tried two or three times, and they respond with a few questions, but after that I don't know if they did anything. Thanks again, and sorry for the late reply (vacation).
Flags: needinfo?(joshua-smith)
Trying another contact http://twitter.com/MozWebCompat/status/374958770772008960
Contacted through the feedback form because of http://twitter.com/thebeebs/status/374971427923193856
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Tried to bing the twitter ;) http://twitter.com/MozWebCompat/status/395964255155265537
tested today again on the HTTP side. http://www.bing.com/ When sending a iOS UA, the HTTP response include things like <meta name="mobileoptimized" content="0"/> and specific JS code for mobile devices. <html lang="ja" xml:lang="ja" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:Web="http://schemas.live.com/Web/"> (JA because I'm in Japan. Same for Firefox on Android) When sending a Firefox OS UA, The HTTP response is the same than desktop computers. Some examples (FANUA == Firefox Android, FOSUA == Firefox OS, APHUA == iOS): → http -b GET http://www.bing.com/ "User-Agent: $FANUA" | grep -i "<html" <html lang="ja" xml:lang="ja" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:Web="http://schemas.live.com/Web/"><head><meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="content-type" /><script type="text/javascript">//<![CDATA[ → http -b GET http://www.bing.com/ "User-Agent: $FOSUA" | grep -i "<html" <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html lang="ja" xml:lang="ja" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="content-type" /><script type="text/javascript">//<![CDATA[ → http -b GET http://www.bing.com/ "User-Agent: $APHUA" | grep -i "<html" <html lang="ja" xml:lang="ja" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:Web="http://schemas.live.com/Web/"><head><meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="content-type" /><script type="text/javascript">//<![CDATA[
I confirmed on the devices. Firefox OS ZTE, 1.2 And iPod Touch iOS 6.1
on Firefox Android, which receives the mobile version, there is a flickering at the bottom of Microsoft trademark and the scrollbar too.
Harald, by any chance do we have any contacts with bing people?
Flags: needinfo?(hkirschner)
Contacted someone at Microsoft who is in charge of Web Compatibility issues.
Flags: needinfo?(hkirschner)
Pinged Colleen, my contact at Microsoft so we can make a better case to Microsoft Bing Team. Bing team recently released an app. http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2014/05/09/microsoft-beats-google-launching-bing-search-firefox-os/
I just checked today. No resolution yet. I will contact people from IE again.
Summary: bing.com doesn't recognize B2G UA as mobile → bing.com doesn't recognize Firefox OS UA as mobile
hmmm :/ not sure what to do here. We have pretty good relationship with Microsoft, but this doesn't translate to the appropriate action in the Bing team. I wonder if David has a creative idea for asking them to make it right on Firefox OS. I will send him an email. To note that Firefox Android is receiving the right thing, so it's really the UA sniffing story.
Priority: -- → P5
No longer blocks: bing.com
Closing as we are not working on Firefox OS anymore.
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 6 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Product: Tech Evangelism → Web Compatibility
Component: Mobile → Site Reports
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