Last modified: 2014-03-10 16:24:58 UTC
If a mobile device (tested on Kindle 3 and ipod 2 with Opera Mini) issues a search for a non-existent page (e.g. "Georgias") with one of the following URLs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?search=Georgias or http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=Georgias or http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php/?search=Georgias then the desktop search results page will be served, not the mobile version. If the URL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/?search=Georgias is used instead, or if one searches for an existing page, then the proper mobile version is served. This is especially serious on the Kindle, since that device presumably offers free world-wide wireless Wikipedia access, but it issues all search requests in the first format above and the resulting search results pages are unusable.
*** Bug 62075 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I'm confused: which of these 3 URLs does Kindle use in practice? Note that due to compatibility with various other clients we don't want to ever automatically redirect /w/ URLs to mobile.
Kindle 3 (Kindle Keyboard) running software version 4.3 uses the URL scheme http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?search=Georgias for all its search requests.
Prioritization and scheduling of this bug is tracked on Mingle card https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/mobile/cards/1748
Change 117449 had a related patch set uploaded by MaxSem: Redirect Kindle search requests to mobile https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/117449
Change 117449 merged by Faidon Liambotis: Redirect Kindle search requests to mobile https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/117449
