827670 - elpais.com.co doesn't recognize Firefox OS as mobile

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

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

Description

[Lawrence Mandel [:lmandel] (use needinfo)]

elpais.com.co 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.

Comment 1

[:Harald Kirschner :digitarald]

We are working with elpais as premium partner. We should remove the UA override for elpais.com.co for 1.1., as it *breaks* the site and triggers the Desktop page. I can work with the partner on allowing the overridden UA temporarily.

Shall I provide a pull request?

Comment 2

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

Harald, 

What do you mean? Which product are you talking about? Is it "Firefox for Android" or "Firefox OS". See below at the HTTP level, currently, based on the User Agent String only.

* Firefox for Android is being redirected to Mobile
* Firefox OS is still receiving the desktop site.

I would love to remove the UA override for both of them. Can we have the User-Agent String of Firefox OS recognized as a mobile device. Because it is what they are currently doing.  

Don't be afraid to share with them this bug, so they can explain the issues they have and how we can work together on solving them.

Thanks!

# CHROME on NEXUS

→ http HEAD http://elpais.com.co/ User-Agent:'Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 4.0.4; Galaxy Nexus Build/IMM76B) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/18.0.1025.133 Mobile Safari/535.19' 

HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Location: http://m.elpais.com.co/320-htc
Server: Apache/2.2.22 (EL)
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.17


# FIREFOX FOR ANDROID
 
→ http HEAD http://elpais.com.co/ User-Agent:'Mozilla/5.0 (Android; Mobile; rv:18.0) Gecko/18.0 Firefox/18.0' 

HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Location: http://m.elpais.com.co/320-htc
Server: Apache/2.2.22 (EL)
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.17


# FIREFOX OS

→ http HEAD http://elpais.com.co/ User-Agent:'Mozilla/5.0 (Mobile; rv:18.0) Gecko/18.0 Firefox/18.0' 

HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Location: /elpais/
Server: Apache/2.2.22 (EL)
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.17

And then 

→ http HEAD http://elpais.com.co/elpais/ User-Agent:'Mozilla/5.0 (Mobile; rv:18.0) Gecko/18.0 Firefox/18.0' 

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Apache/2.2.22 (EL)

Comment 3

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

btw there is an issue with elpais in general and "Firefox for Android" and "Firefox OS". This should be a separate bug. I'm mentioning it here because they do redirection based on IP geolocation for a portal for *America*

(I haven't tested on the devices)

→ http HEAD http://elpais.es/ User-Agent:'Mozilla/5.0 (Android; Mobile; rv:18.0) Gecko/18.0 Firefox/18.0' 

HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily
Location: http://elpais.com/
Server: nginx/1.3.5 epet/0.7.5.5

Then

→ http HEAD http://elpais.com/ User-Agent:'Mozilla/5.0 (Android; Mobile; rv:18.0) Gecko/18.0 Firefox/18.0' 

HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Location: http://elpais.com/elpais/portada_america.html
Server: nginx/1.3.5 epet/0.7.5.5

Then

→ http HEAD http://elpais.com/elpais/portada_america.html User-Agent:'Mozilla/5.0 (Android; Mobile; rv:18.0) Gecko/18.0 Firefox/18.0' 

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx/1.3.5 epet/0.7.5.5

Comment 4

[Lawrence Mandel [:lmandel] (use needinfo)]

(In reply to Harald Kirschner :digitarald from comment #1)
> We are working with elpais as premium partner. We should remove the UA
> override for elpais.com.co for 1.1., as it *breaks* the site and triggers
> the Desktop page. I can work with the partner on allowing the overridden UA
> temporarily.
> 
> Shall I provide a pull request?

Please file a separate bug to remove the UA override for elpais.com.co and nom it for leo.

Comment 5

[:Harald Kirschner :digitarald]

Parson the confusion. We are currently not working with elpais.co. I will update this when I actually have a technical contact there.

Comment 6

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

When contacting them, they publish articles about Firefox OS
http://www.elpais.com.co/elpais/internacional/noticias/mozilla-lanza-competencia-para-android-y-ios
not readable on Firefox OS. :)

Comment 7

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

Manuel Otalvaro is " Mobile and Web Designer at El País"
http://co.linkedin.com/in/manuelotalvaro
http://www.otalvaro.co/

Contacting him for the site.

Comment 8

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

The designer replied and said that he will send an email to developers.

Comment 9

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

This is not solved. 
We still receive the desktop site on Firefox OS.
http://www.elpais.com.co/elpais/

When faking the UA for Chrome Mobile 30 on Android 4.4, we receive an entire compatible version for Firefox OS. There is nothing which makes it unusable on Firefox OS.

I recontacted the designer.

Comment 10

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

So now Firefox Android receives the mobile version. I propose we change the UA override to be Firefox Android.

Comment 11

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

Closing as we are not working on Firefox OS anymore.