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desktop view on mobile domain
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There's a scenario where you can be on a mobile domain (eg en.m.wikipedia.org) and get the desktop view of the site rather than the mobile view. To reproduce:

  • Go to any article on en.m.wikipedia.org (you should be in the mobile view)
  • Take an action that would bypass varnish caching (eg opt in to beta or alpha)
  • Tap 'Desktop view' in the footer
  • Go to any article on en.m.wikipedia.org (do NOT tap 'mobile view' in the footer - enter the URL manually)

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Severity: normal

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to High.Nov 22 2014, 1:41 AM
• bzimport added a project: MobileFrontend-stable.
• bzimport set Reference to bz46473.
• bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).
• Awjrichards created this task.Mar 23 2013, 12:20 AM
Jdlrobson added a comment.Mar 30 2013, 8:55 PM

What's likely to be the culprit here?

• Awjrichards added a comment.Apr 12 2013, 11:06 PM

The problem here is having the stopMobileRedirect cookie set (which will prevent automatic redirection of a mobile device to a mobile domain [eg en.wikipedia.org -> en.m.wikipedia.org]) but directly requesting something from the mobile domain (eg clicking a link to a .m domain, or manually entering en.m.wikipedia.org).

If a mobile-specific domain exists (determinable by the use of $wgMobileUrlTemplate), that domain should /always/ return a mobile version of the site, even if the stopMobileRedirect cookie is set.

• Awjrichards added a comment.Apr 12 2013, 11:08 PM

Forgot to finish... otherwise (if we allow desktop view form a mobile domain), we run a risk of polluting the mobile cache with desktop versions of articles.

• Awjrichards added a comment.Apr 18 2013, 1:27 AM

Should be fixed with https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/59778/

Jdlrobson mentioned this in T214998: RFC: Remove .m. subdomain, serve mobile and desktop variants through the same URL.Feb 5 2019, 10:11 PM
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