www.usatoday.com - desktop site instead of mobile site on Firefox OS

[alex-mayorga]

URL: http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2015/11/26/top-10-tech-innovations-2015---graham/76384588/
Browser / Version: Firefox Mobile 45.0
Operating System: Firefox OS
Problem type: Desktop site instead of mobile site

Steps to Reproduce

1. Navigate to: http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2015/11/26/top-10-tech-innovations-2015---graham/76384588/
2. …

Expected Behavior: Get mobile site

Actual Behavior: Get desktop site

[karlcow]

Adding what it looks like on Firefox Android
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2015/11/26/top-10-tech-innovations-2015---graham/76384588/

[karlcow]

server side content negociation going on based on the user agent string.
Note the Content-Length differences.

Firefox Android

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Cache-Control: max-age=20
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Encoding: gzip
Content-Length: 10762
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2015 01:36:05 GMT
Expires: Tue, 01 Dec 2015 01:36:25 GMT
Last-Modified: Tue, 01 Dec 2015 01:30:20 GMT
Server: nginx/1.2.7
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Vary: User-Agent

Firefox OS

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Cache-Control: max-age=60
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Encoding: gzip
Content-Language: en
Content-Length: 29735
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2015 01:36:15 GMT
Expires: Tue, 01 Dec 2015 01:37:15 GMT
Last-Modified: Tue, 01 Dec 2015 01:31:37 GMT
Server: nginx/1.2.7
Vary: Accept-Encoding
X-Gannett-Site-Version: 1723.0
X-Secret: cnpudnkgcnpiZXZnbUBoZm5nYnFubC5wYnogbmFxIFYganZ5eSBnZWwgZ2IgdHJnIGxiaCBuIHdiby4=
X-UA-Compatible: IE=Edge,chrome=1

We need to contact them and ask them to send the same thing they send to Firefox on Android.

The user-agent string for Firefox OS is Mozilla/5.0 (Mobile; rv:44.0) Gecko/44.0 Firefox/44.0

switching to needscontact.

[karlcow]

The issue happened in the past
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=961964

[Scantleous]

Make sure to use the full URL - links are cutting off the last 19 characters.

Here is a link to the author's Twitter Account: https://twitter.com/jeffersongraham

A support contact could not be found.

[techchic]

@adamopenweb this site http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2015/11/26/top-10-tech-innovations-2015 does not exists anymore.Don't you think the issue should be closed?

[adamopenweb]

Hi @techchic the url for this bug is actually longer, but on webcompat.com we have a bug with URL's that have certain characters (1). I can confirm the issue still exists in Firefox OS.

(1): webcompat/webcompat.com#1171

[MDTsai]

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