978822 - alamaula.com sends desktop site to Firefox OS

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Web Compatibility :: Site Reports, defect)

Comment 1

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

The alamaula.com site is set up to redirect mobile browsers to their mobile site.

Unfortunately, it does not recognise Firefox OS devices as smartphones. Here's some HTTP traffic analysis that shows how their server-side detection works:

Firefox Android and Safari on iPhone are redirected to http://m.alamaula.com/region/set/ar/, Firefox OS not redirected

Selected HTTP response headers (Firefox OS, Firefox on Android, Safari on iPhone):

Response for: 'Mozilla/5.0 (Mobile; rv:18.1) Gecko/18.1 Firefox/18.1'
Response Status: 200
content-length: 11285
content-type: text/html

Response for: 'Mozilla/5.0 (Android; Mobile; rv:26.0) Gecko/26.0 Firefox/26.0'
Response Status: 302
content-length: 2346
location: http://m.alamaula.com/region/set/ar/
content-type: text/html

Response for: 'Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 6_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/536.26 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/6.0 Mobile/10A5376e Safari/8536.25'
Response Status: 302
content-length: 2346
location: http://m.alamaula.com/region/set/ar/
content-type: text/html

Comment 2

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

This bug is now fully analysed and anyone in the Mozilla community is welcome to reach out (politely! ;)) to alamaula.com. 

You can use this letter template or tweet:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Compatibility/StdLetters#Spanish

and also include this URL:
http://webcompat.com/simplebug/?id=978822
to give the site's webmaster a quick overview of the bug.

If you contact the site, please assign the bug to yourself and change "[contactready]" to "[sitewait]" in the box named "Whiteboard" (ask me if you can't change it).

Thank you!

Comment 3

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

:)
Fix discovered by testing