843139 - consumersearch.com doesn't recognize B2G UA as mobile

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

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

Description

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

consumersearch.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

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

Contacted through http://www.consumersearch.com/feedback

Comment 2

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

* Firefox OS receives Desktop Content
* iOS, Firefox Android, Opera Mobile receives Mobile Content.

When mobile is detected, a cookie is set.
Set-Cookie: show_mobile_theme=1

# Firefox OS

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

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Cache-Control: public, max-age=7487
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Encoding: gzip
Content-Length: 5535
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 17:14:30 GMT
ETag: "1385644481-1"
Expires: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 19:19:17 GMT
Last-Modified: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 13:14:41 +0000
Server: Apache/2.2.16 (Unix) PHP/5.2.14 with Suhosin-Patch mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.8.9
Vary: Accept-Encoding
X-Drupal-Cache: HIT
X-Drupal-Cache-FAST: TRUE
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.14


# Firefox Android

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

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Cache-Control: max-age=0, no-cache
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Encoding: gzip
Content-Length: 5873
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 17:15:03 GMT
ETag: "1385650783-1"
Expires: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 17:15:03 GMT
Last-Modified: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 14:59:43 +0000
Pragma: no-cache
Server: Apache/2.2.16 (Unix) PHP/5.2.14 with Suhosin-Patch mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.8.9
Set-Cookie: show_mobile_theme=1; expires=Thu, 28-Nov-2013 23:15:02 GMT; path=/; domain=.consumersearch.com
Vary: User-Agent,Accept-Encoding
X-Drupal-Cache: HIT
X-Drupal-Cache-FAST: TRUE
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.14

Comment 3

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

Reported again the issue at [e-mail]

Comment 4

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

Consumersearch devs 
https://github.com/ConsumerSearch?tab=members

Tried to contact one of the devs. Will report if it worked.

Comment 5

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

I had an answer that they were looking into. Sent a reminder today.

Comment 6

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

Removing UA override keyword by bug 980191

Comment 7

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

Attachment: consumersearch-fake-chrome.png

This is not solved. To my reminder on February 2014 was replied:

> sorry i haven't gotten back to you. i'm discussing this with 
> the product team because we're in the process of redesigning 
> our site in the near future and they're trying to figure out 
> if we should wait or make this fix in the meantime. i'll keep 
> you updated.

I will contact them again. When testing the site on Opera (blink) Android, the browser receives a mobile version of the content.

When I fake Chrome UA Mobile Android on *Firefox Desktop*, I get a pretty functional version. 

I will recontact the person with these new details.

Comment 8

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

The last answer I had received from them was in October 2014

> The business has been reorganized and I no longer work on this product. I'll forward along your request.

Their github directory has not been updated since December 2014.
https://github.com/ConsumerSearch

The company press releases have stopped on November 14, 2012 
http://www.consumersearch.com/press-releases

Twitter acount is still broadcasting pages.
https://twitter.com/consumersearch/with_replies


 
I'm tempted to close it as WONTFIX.

Comment 9

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

It seems also Damon McClure listed in http://www.consumersearch.com/about
https://www.linkedin.com/pub/damon-mcclure/4/a11/4a8 is still working there.
But the full company has been bought by ask.com

Comment 10

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

Closing as we are not working on Firefox OS anymore.