843119 - askthebuilder.com doesn't recognize Firefox OS UA as mobile

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

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

Description

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

askthebuilder.com serves a desktop site to B2G. Bug 823364 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

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

Confirmed on the ZTE device that the override is working and that without the override we get a not usable desktop site.

# Firefox for Android - Working

HEAD / HTTP/1.1
Accept: */*
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, compress
Host: www.askthebuilder.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Android; Mobile; rv:18.0) Gecko/18.0 Firefox/18.0



HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Cache-Control: max-age=3600
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2013 15:54:14 GMT
Expires: Thu, 01 Aug 2013 16:54:14 GMT
Location: http://www.askthebuilder.com/mobile/
Server: Apache/2.0.63 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.0.63 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 PHP/5.3.3
Vary: Accept-Encoding,User-Agent
X-Pingback: http://www.askthebuilder.com/xmlrpc.php
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.3.3



Firefox OS.

HEAD / HTTP/1.1
Accept: */*
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, compress
Host: www.askthebuilder.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Mobile; rv:18.0) Gecko/18.0 Firefox/18.0



HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Cache-Control: max-age=3600
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2013 15:54:29 GMT
Expires: Thu, 01 Aug 2013 16:54:29 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.63 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.0.63 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 PHP/5.3.3
Vary: Accept-Encoding,User-Agent
X-Pingback: http://www.askthebuilder.com/xmlrpc.php
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.3.3

Comment 2

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

Contacted through http://www.askthebuilder.com/ask-tim/

Comment 3

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

First answer:

> I'm really confused. AsktheBuilder.com is running on Wordpress and we have a plugin that delivers mobile versions.
> 
> Hard to believe it's not set for Firefox.

I asked for more details (plug-in name). I guess it might be a matter on doing pull requests for the WordPress Plug-in so it is compatible with Firefox OS.

Comment 4

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

The answer is 

> Mobile compatibility for Ask the Builder is provided by the WPtouch plug-in version 1.9.39 
> http://wordpress.org/plugins/wptouch/


The current version is 1.9.8.1 and the user agent array is not including Firefox OS. I opened a new bug and make this one dependent on it.

Comment 5

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

Contacted Tim from the Web site and shared the blog post on how to fix the site
https://miketaylr.com/posts/2013/10/firefox-os-and-wptouch.html

Comment 6

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

Checked today. Not fixed, but there is this nasty dependency on WPTouch added a flag for it.

Comment 7

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

Removing UA override keyword by bug 980191

Comment 8

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

Contacted the owner of the site.
with the link to http://www.wptouch.com/bravenewcode/wptouch-adds-new-device-and-browser-support/

Comment 9

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

The site is still using the old version of WPTouch. And we are still getting the desktop site.

Comment 10

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

Attachment: Screenshot from Flame smartphone

Comment 11

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

Closing as we are not working on Firefox OS anymore.