856662 - el-nacional.com doesn't recognize B2G UA as mobile

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Web Compatibility :: Site Reports, defect)

Description

[Leonard Camacho [:lcamacho]]

I've been checking popular sites in Venezuela and found that el-nacional.com doesn't send the mobile version when using Firefox OS simulator.

Comment 1

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

(w/o www in URL this site has a redirect loop)

Comment 2

[Leonard Camacho [:lcamacho]]

After 20 min with el-nacional.com webmaster this has been fixed. Tested on ZTE Open.

Comment 3

[Mike Taylor [:miketaylr]]

Confirmed that I get sent to http://m.el-nacional.com/. Thanks Leonard!

Comment 4

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

Unfortunately this site regressed and now sends desktop content again.

Comment 5

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

(but it seems they just dropped redirecting to their mobile site altogether?)

Comment 6

[Leonard Camacho [:lcamacho]]

They remove the redirection from what I can see in the scripts but m.el-nacional.com is working; I've been trying making contact again but they doesn't respond.

Comment 7

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

Maybe they aren't actually aware that their desktop->mobile redirection logic stopped working entirely?

Comment 8

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

On the server side, same behavior for iOS and Firefox OS.
On the client side too, so not sure it is a regression, more like a change in terms of business strategies or mistakes.

I would be inclined to keep it RESOLVED ;)
 

→ echo "";echo ""; URI='http://www.el-nacional.com/' ; echo "# iOS SAFARI"; htt
p --print hH GET $URI "User-Agent: $APHUA"  ;echo "# FIREFOX OS"; http --print 
hH GET $URI "User-Agent: $FOSUA" 


# iOS SAFARI
GET / HTTP/1.1
Accept: */*
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, compress
Host: www.el-nacional.com
User-Agent:  Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 5_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/534.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1 Mobile/9A334 Safari/7534.48.3

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Encoding: gzip
Content-Length: 38070
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2014 17:36:14 GMT
Server: nginx
Vary: Accept-Encoding,User-Agent

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

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Encoding: gzip
Content-Length: 38070
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2014 17:36:15 GMT
Server: nginx
Vary: Accept-Encoding,User-Agent

Comment 9

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

I'll leave that up to Leonard - if he can find them time to send them a note asking if this was intentional, he can - if not he can suggest we close it. We're mostly worried about sites where Firefox / Firefox OS users get a *worse* user experience than other users do.

Comment 10

[Leonard Camacho [:lcamacho]]

I think this bug could be closed because el-nacional.com hasn't reinserted their code to redirect clients to their mobile site in months so this seems to be the desired behaviour.

If they start again redirecting clients this could be reopened.

Comment 11

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

I agree. Thanks!