932846 - rediff.com isn't redirecting to mobile site on Firefox OS

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

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

Description

[Abdul Rauf [:haseeb]]

Site: http://rediff.com/
rediff.com isn't redirecting to mobile site on Firefox OS

:: Steps To Reproduce

1. Open Firefox browser
2. Enter rediff.com


...

:: Expected Result

m.rediff.com mobile site

:: Actual Result

http://rediff.com/ desktop site

:: Additional Information

Software Version: Firefox OS simulator 4.0
Reporter's User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu Chromium/28.0.1500.71 Chrome/28.0.1500.71 Safari/537.36

Comment 1

[Mike Taylor [:miketaylr]]

They're doing some kind of serverside sniffing based on the User-Agent header. We need to reach out and ask them to add Firefox OS to the list of mobile devices that get the mobile site redirect.

mtaylor at omg-2 in ~/tmp
$ http --print=Hh GET http://www.rediff.com User-Agent:"$FFA"
GET / HTTP/1.1
Accept: */*
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, compress
Host: www.rediff.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Android; Mobile; rv:25.0) Gecko/25.0 Firefox/25.0

HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length: 0
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 16:22:26 GMT
Location: http://m.rediff.com/
Server: AkamaiGHost

mtaylor at omg-2 in ~/tmp
$ http --print=Hh GET http://www.rediff.com User-Agent:"$FFOS"
GET / HTTP/1.1
Accept: */*
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, compress
Host: www.rediff.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Mobile; rv:18.1) Gecko/18.1 Firefox/18.1

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Encoding: gzip
Content-Length: 22154
Content-Type: text/html
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 16:22:30 GMT
Server: Apache
Vary: Accept-Encoding

Comment 2

[Abdul Rauf [:haseeb]]

Conatced via email [e-mail]

Comment 3

[Abdul Rauf [:haseeb]]

Contacted via Twitter https://twitter.com/haseeb_offline/status/423751027754414081

Comment 4

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

Abdul, this might help A more human contact.
http://twitter.com/austinnoronha
http://www.linkedin.com/in/austinnoronha

Comment 5

[Abdul Rauf [:haseeb]]

https://twitter.com/haseeb_offline/status/468611545673392129

Comment 6

[Abdul Rauf [:haseeb]]

Got reply "thanks for the input will check on this!! I have fwd ur request to the team."

Comment 7

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

Abdul, maybe you can ping them?

Comment 8

[Abdul Rauf [:haseeb]]

alright, will ping again

Comment 9

[Abdul Rauf [:haseeb]]

No response yet, the guy i contacted have left rediff and now he is working for freecharge.in. Will try another contact

Comment 10

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

Closing as we are not working on Firefox OS anymore.