878273 - livescore.com doesn't recognize B2G UA as mobile

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

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

Description

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

livescore.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]

# ZTE Device (Firefox OS)

* With UA Override 
Splash screen for Android on http://www.livescore.com/  -> then link to http://android.livescore.com/ Each time the user go back, s/he has to select the Web app.


* Without UA Override 
Desktop Site http://www.livescore.com/
Note: when reaching the site without UA override, and going directly to the http://android.livescore.com/, the site is working.

I would be a user I would bookmark http://android.livescore.com/ instead of http://www.livescore.com/ to not have to go through the splash screen.


on iPod Touch people are getting the splash screen for iphone and ipad. When web app is chosen they are redirected to http://iphone.livescore.com/ 



HEAD / HTTP/1.1
Accept: */*
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, compress
Host: www.livescore.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=5
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Encoding: gzip
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 18:13:09 GMT
Last-Modified: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 18:12:59 GMT
Refresh: 90; URL=http://www.livescore.com/
Server: nginx/1.4.1
Vary: Accept-Encoding
X-Cached: HIT

The content of the first page is negotiated on the server side depending on the User Agent String.

→ http -v GET http://www.livescore.com/ User-Agent:'Mozilla/5.0 (Mobile; rv:18.0) Gecko/18.0 Firefox/18.0' | grep "web app"

→ http -v GET http://www.livescore.com/ User-Agent:'Mozilla/5.0 (Android; Mobile; rv:18.0) Gecko/18.0 Firefox/18.0' | grep "web app"
					<a onclick="createCookie(true)" href="http://android.livescore.com/">Go to the web app</a>

Comment 2

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

Contacted through http://www.livescore.com/contact/

Comment 3

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

The owner of the site seems to be Peter Jerie 
http://domains.adrforum.com/domains/decisions/831177.htm
http://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/decisions/html/2009/d2009-0375.html
There is no answer yet through the contact form. Their automated response said that it would be likely the case.

Note that doing UA override for livescore.com fixes only one of the sites where the scores are delivered. .biz, .net, and many others.

Trying to contact again for the second time through the gandi email address.

Comment 4

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

Good news.

> "We are currently working on a new version of our proxy which will address this issue as well."

I will contact them in two weeks from now.

Comment 5

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

contacted again today. The site still sends the desktop version.

Comment 6

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

Dees is helping us. Asked for a status.

Comment 7

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

Contacted again today, asking to send the same version they are sending to Firefox Android to Firefox OS. Had no reply/answer from the contact since November 2013.

Comment 8

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

When going to http://www.livescore.com/
with a fake UA Chrome 30 Mobile Android 4.4,
Firefox receives an intermediate page proposing to download the app or to continue to the Web.
If we select go to the Web app, we are being redirected to http://android.livescore.com/
This is working perfectly on Firefox OS. No issues at all.

Faking the iphone UA, we *also* get a working version of the site 
http://iphone.livescore.com/

Windows Mobile Phone and Firefox are being declined any mobile version. Quite Unfortunate, because it would be working without issues. I will also ping IE team about it.
Maybe a good candidate to transfer to http://webcompat.com/

Comment 9

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

I filed http://webcompat.com/issues/343

Comment 10

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

Recontacted to the email sent one year ago.

Comment 11

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

Issues maybe contacting them.

> This is just a temporary error. The server will continue to attempt to deliver
> the message. If the message cannot be delivered in the defined time limit you will
> be informed again.
> Reporting-MTA: dns;

will see if the server replies later.

Comment 12

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

Attachment: Screenshot from Flame smartphone

Comment 13

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

Closing as we are not working on Firefox OS anymore.