887788 - m.starmedia.com doesn't display correctly in Gaia browser

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Web Compatibility :: Site Reports, defect)

Description

[efrat]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/27.0.1453.116 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

Browsed to "http://m.starmedia.com/" from Gaia browser, and also to:
http://m.starmedia.com/videos/
http://m.starmedia.com/entretenimiento/
http://m.starmedia.com/entretenimiento/famosos/
http://m.starmedia.com/tecnologia/
http://m.starmedia.com/autos/
http://m.starmedia.com/mujer/moda-belleza/
http://m.starmedia.com/mujer/salud/
http://m.starmedia.com/mujer/
http://m.starmedia.com/hombre/
http://m.starmedia.com/deportes/

Tested on device:
Model: ZTE Open
OS version: 1.0.1.0-prerelease
Firmware: V1.01.00.01.019.111
Platform:18.0
Build identifier:20130522003459 


Actual results:

The site uploads as a desktop site and not mobile adjusted


Expected results:

The web page should have been displayed correctly for mobile 
Displays correctly as a mobile site on Firefox for Android and Chrome for Android

Comment 1

[efrat]

http://m.starmedia.com/noticias/economia/

Comment 2

[Mike Taylor [:miketaylr]]

Hmm... I can't get it to load anything for me right now, I just get the "The page isn't redirecting properly" error message.

Comment 3

[Mike Taylor [:miketaylr]]

However, 

mtaylor at omg-2 in ~
$ http --print=hH GET http://m.starmedia.com User-Agent:"$FFA"
GET / HTTP/1.1
Accept: */*
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, compress
Host: m.starmedia.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Android; Mobile; rv:18.0) Gecko/18.0 Firefox/18.0

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Encoding: gzip
Content-Length: 4229
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2013 22:11:09 GMT
Last-Modified: Mon, 09 Sep 2013 22:01:44 GMT
Server: Apache
Vary: Accept-Encoding

vs.

mtaylor at omg-2 in ~
$ http --print=hH GET http://m.starmedia.com User-Agent:"$FFOS"
GET / HTTP/1.1
Accept: */*
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, compress
Host: m.starmedia.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Mobile; rv:18.0) Gecko/18.0 Firefox/18.0

HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Content-Encoding: gzip
Content-Length: 187
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2013 22:11:46 GMT
Location: http://www.starmedia.com/
Server: Apache
Vary: Accept-Encoding

So there's some kind of serverside sniffing in place looking for "Android" at least.

Comment 4

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

The site seems to be located in Mexico according to http://www.starmedia.com/politicas/

The contact page is at http://www.starmedia.com/contacto/

Comment 5

[Adam Stevenson [:adamopenweb]]

Tried using the form on the contact page but received error with no explanation.

Comment 6

[Adam Stevenson [:adamopenweb]]

Trying twitter.

Comment 7

[Adam Stevenson [:adamopenweb]]

No response and contact page is still giving an error.

Comment 8

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

Seems fixed