Last modified: 2011-09-20 17:23:08 UTC
in many iPad apps : an ios webview loading the mobile url http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris will not load the mobile version but the desktop version. this is also the case for all mobile url I could test. This is very annoying as many ipad apps are loading the mobile url in a webview which is not fullscreen, and so the wiki is not easily readable. thanks for your help !
Can you confirm that it's directly loading http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris -- and *not* loading http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris and then expecting an automated redirect? Can you recommend any particular apps to try to help reproduce the problem for testing?
Hi Brion, I confirm the UIWebView is really loading http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris and is NOT expecting an automated redirect. This happens on iPad for example with this free app (but not on iPhone) http://itunes.apple.com/fr/app/world-explorer/id381581095?mt=8 here's a promo code to download it : FE9T7YXJ7M7F Procedure to use the code: + Open the appstore on the iPad + click on "Selection" + go to the bottom of the page + click on "Redeem code" + enter the code + the app is downloaded for free. This also happens on this Free Mac app : http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/world-explorer/id414872849?mt=12 thanks for your help ! regards
*** Bug 31013 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
the following code is from the mac app mentioned above. It shows that the app really loads the mobile url : NSString *wikURL = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%@",wikTitle ]; [webView setMainFrameURL:wikURL];
We can indeed confirm this on the iPad and Mac versions, much to our surprise. :) The request is going to en.m.wikipedia.org but somehow is getting back the desktop view -- the HTTP request headers are: GET /wiki/Eiffel%20Tower HTTP/1.1 Host: en.m.wikipedia.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_8) AppleWebKit/534.50 (KHTML, like Gecko) Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 Accept-Language: en-us Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate Connection: keep-alive Aha, we think it's the use of spaces in the title -- the canonical hit should be to /wiki/Eiffel_Tower (with underscore). It looks like MediaWiki's coming back with the canonical-form redirect before the MobileFrontend system has a chance to override the output -- and since it directs to the non-mobile URL, you no longer get the mobile view. We'll see if we can workaround...
I added a hook in r97573 (on trunk - to be merged) which Patrick should be able to use to abort or alter the redirect when on the special mobile domain. Might want/need more generalization in the future, but the code in MediaWiki::performRequest is just not well factored right now. :)
Merged to REL1_18 and 1.17wmf1.
Fix added in r97645 to Mobile Frontend extension to abort redirect on special mobile domain.
