841432 - http://m.cumhuriyet.com.tr serving WAP to Firefox on Android and Firefox OS

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Web Compatibility :: Site Reports, defect)

Description

[Ilgaz Öcal]

Attachment: See the prompt. Operating system seems to figure it is html

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Android; Mobile; rv:19.0) Gecko/19.0 Firefox/19.0
Build ID: 20130212081702

Steps to reproduce:

Attempted to visit http://m.cumhuriyet.com.tr and http://cep.hurriyet.com.tr/Default.aspx?


Actual results:

Main web pages (indexes) were treated like binary (eg zip) files and prompted to be downloaded


Expected results:

Site indexes should have displayed

Comment 1

[Ilgaz Öcal]

Apologies for not stating it in original report. Firefox stable (non beta) for Android behaves exactly the same wrongful manner.

Comment 2

[Ilgaz Öcal]

I noticed both sites use a rather unconventional Index.aspx (first char in caps) naming in their root pages. They may be sharing similar software as both are Turkish newspapers.

Comment 3

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

$ curl -ILA "Mozilla/5.0 (Android; Mobile; rv:21.0) Gecko/21.0 Firefox/21.0" http://m.cumhuriyet.com.tr/
HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Cache-Control: private
Content-Length: 156
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-9
Location: http://m.cumhuriyet.com.tr/Default.aspx
Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5
Set-Cookie: ASP.NET_SessionId=4h0lsj45tafy5myagxx4c3zw; path=/; HttpOnly
X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 19:12:54 GMT
Set-Cookie: NSC_bnwh - xbqtjuft=ffffffffc3a01f5645525d5f4f58455e445a4a423660;expires=Thu, 14-Feb-2013 19:30:31 GMT;path=/

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Cache-Control: private
Content-Length: 20113
Content-Type: application/vnd.wap.xhtml+xml; charset=iso-8859-9
Set-Cookie: WEBTRENDS_ID=192.168.1.6-1305933792.30280423; expires=Fri, 14-Feb-2014 19:12:59 GMT; path=/
Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.0
Set-Cookie: ASP.NET_SessionId=sxjmyzaazes5a545bzxvkcfk; path=/; HttpOnly
X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727
Set-Cookie: hereWeAdUID=8811cc55207f4d5a8bb8fc8f730bc3a5; expires=Mon, 14-Feb-2033 19:12:59 GMT; path=/
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 19:12:59 GMT
Set-Cookie: NSC_bnwh - xbqtjuft=ffffffffc3a01f2b45525d5f4f58455e445a4a423660;expires=Thu, 14-Feb-2013 19:30:36 GMT;path=/

They are serving up a WAP page to Firefox for Android.

Feel free to send an email to the web author of the site to tell them that Firefox for Android is a modern browser and for them to recognize that our browser is more than capable of rendering their site.

Comment 4

[Ilgaz Öcal]

Additionally, http://m.gazetevatan.com/ (another very popular newspaper site) prompts the prompt. I can only guess they share same CMS/server system. However, if this is really only happening to Firefox, it will become a seriously bad first impression in Turkish mobile market. I know a single internal contact from one site I reported and nobody else to reach.  I seriously doubt they will change a single configuration line in server. As I am on mobile, I can't help further.

Comment 5

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

http://m.gazetevatan.com/ seems fixed (tested Android and FirefoxOS UA string in desktop build).

Cumhuriyet still broken though. Anyone able to help us find contact details for this site, like links to a "contact us" form? Tried Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/MozWebCompat/status/363019200433889282

Comment 6

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

There is no automatic redirection from www. to m. on any devices. Just to clear that out, for the future.

About and GET http://m.cumhuriyet.com.tr/

                                          200
* Firefox Android   302 /Default.aspx     application/vnd.wap.xhtml+xml   '-//WAPFORUM//DTD XHTML Mobile 1.0//EN'
* iOS               302 /iphone
                    301 /iphone/          application/xhtml+xml           '-//WAPFORUM//DTD XHTML Mobile 1.0//EN'
* Firefox OS (same than Firefox Android)
* Opera Mobile Android (same than Firefox Android)
* Opera Mini (same than Firefox Android)                       


In the body, there is nothing specific which is WAP related. An HTML5 doctype would be fine or application/xhtml+xml (if they are sure to deliver well-formed markup).




# Firefox for Android 

GET / HTTP/1.1
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, compress
Host: m.cumhuriyet.com.tr
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Android; Mobile; rv:18.0) Gecko/18.0 Firefox/18.0

HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Cache-Control: private
Content-Length: 156
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-9
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 19:49:01 GMT
Location: http://m.cumhuriyet.com.tr/Default.aspx
Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.0
Set-Cookie: WEBTRENDS_ID=192.168.1.6-2417389312.30336553; expires=Sat, 18-Nov-2023 19:49:02 GMT; path=/
Set-Cookie: ASP.NET_SessionId=imsqym45j24ta455tlpbidbe; path=/; HttpOnly
Set-Cookie: NSC_bnwh - xbqtjuft=ffffffffc3a01f2d45525d5f4f58455e445a4a423660;expires=Wed, 20-Nov-2013 20:12:25 GMT;path=/
X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET

GET /Default.aspx HTTP/1.1
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, compress
Host: m.cumhuriyet.com.tr
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Android; Mobile; rv:18.0) Gecko/18.0 Firefox/18.0

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Cache-Control: private
Content-Length: 6589
Content-Type: application/vnd.wap.xhtml+xml; charset=iso-8859-9
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 19:49:13 GMT
Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.0
Set-Cookie: WEBTRENDS_ID=192.168.1.6-2538019312.30336553; expires=Sat, 18-Nov-2023 19:49:14 GMT; path=/
Set-Cookie: ASP.NET_SessionId=w3q1ya55aarpffyabgxccw45; path=/; HttpOnly
Set-Cookie: hereWeAdUID=fead64c671fb451fbc23626815374fde; expires=Sun, 20-Nov-2033 19:49:14 GMT; path=/
Set-Cookie: NSC_bnwh - xbqtjuft=ffffffffc3a01f2d45525d5f4f58455e445a4a423660;expires=Wed, 20-Nov-2013 20:12:37 GMT;path=/
X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET

Comment 7

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

So After giving a bit of thinking… I'm split on this one.

On Android, when Opera Mobile and Firefox Mobile are installed, 
1. Open Firefox
2. go to the site http://m.cumhuriyet.com.tr/
3. get a pop-up inviting the user to open the site with Opera Classic (Mobile)
4. Having access to the site


On one hand, the site doesn't benefit anything of sending Firefox and others to a simple HTML file. (Accessing the iphone one is working properly)
On the other hand, why Firefox Android should fail on WAP sites? We could still reprocess on the fly with the HTML parser, when we see the WAP Content type.

I think it would be beneficial for many sites and better for the users.

THEN once this is done, we could TE for having the sites sending us the hifi version instead of the WAP version.

Comment 8

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

OK I decided to go ahead and open the Bug 941241 to see if we can have a resolution more general for this type of issues. At the same time we can try to contact the Web site.

Now… who has knowledge of Turkish language?

Comment 9

[Ilgaz Öcal]

(In reply to Karl Dubost :karlcow from comment #8)
> OK I decided to go ahead and open the Bug 941241 to see if we can have a
> resolution more general for this type of issues. At the same time we can try
> to contact the Web site.
> 
> Now… who has knowledge of Turkish language?

As original bug reporter, I know Turkish language and have an internal contact from cumhuriyet.com.tr , I am trying to contact him right now. Will post the progress as it happens.

Comment 10

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

Thanks. Fabulous.

Comment 11

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

and..they've fixed it :-)