969849 - idealo.de sends desktop site to Firefox OS

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

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

Description

[sezen.guenes]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:28.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/28.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20140205162153

Steps to reproduce:

I visited idealo.de with Firefox OS.


Actual results:

I got a Desktop Website.


Expected results:

I expected a Mobile Website.

Comment 1

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

Attachment: Comparison screenshot idealo.de

Comment 2

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

The site idealo.de fails to detect Firefox OS devices as smartphones, due to backend browser sniffing. Here are selected response headers for a request from Firefox OS:

Response for: 'Mozilla/5.0 (Mobile; rv:18.1) Gecko/18.1 Firefox/18.1'

Response Status: 301
content-length: 133
location: /;jsessionid=kpyVOFKxlwnd
content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

For comparison, here are selected reseponse headers for a request from Firefox on Android:

Response for: 'Mozilla/5.0 (Android; Mobile; rv:26.0) Gecko/26.0 Firefox/26.0'

Response Status: 301
content-length: 20
location: http://mobil.idealo.de/
content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

We see that Firefox on Android is recognised as a mobile/smartphone browser and redirected to mobil.idealo.de while the Firefox OS smartphone isn't.

Comment 3

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

Closing as we are not working on Firefox OS anymore.