969521 - paypal.com sends desktop site to Firefox OS

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Web Compatibility :: Site Reports, defect)

Description

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

Attachment: Screenshot

Compare the responses to the following HTTP requests:

Comment 1

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

The browser sniffing on PayPal's site mistakenly classifies Firefox OS phones as desktop devices even though they are smartphones. Compare the responses to the following HTTP requests:

------------------------------------------------------------------
GET /home HTTP/1.1
Host: www.paypal.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Android; Mobile; rv:18.0) Gecko/18.0 Firefox/18.0

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2014 19:14:37 GMT
Content-Length: 30134

------------------------------------------------------------------

GET /home HTTP/1.1
Host: www.paypal.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Mobile; rv:18.0) Gecko/18.0 Firefox/18.0

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2014 19:14:24 GMT
Content-Length: 50288

The browser sniffing sends a lighter (touch/smartphone) page when "Android" exists in the User-Agent string. Firefox OS gets a heavier (desktop) page even though its User-Agent string clearly says "Mobile".

Comment 2

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

This will work as expected if PayPal's backend browser sniffing is changed to recognise that any User-Agent string containing both "Firefox" and "Mobile" is a smartphone - type device.

Comment 3

[(not reading bugmail) Nick Desaulniers [:\n]]

Hey the homepage looks better on a FxOS nexus 4.  Can you guys triple check and close this out if everything looks good?

Comment 4

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

Checked from Japan, the UK Web site on a ZTE Open device with UA override off and it's working. 
Congratulations and Thanks.
http://twitter.com/MozWebCompat/status/443137754801516544

We can remove safely the UA override.
Thanks everyone: Nick and cyberdee who have been involved in getting this fixed.