Kindle 3: search for non-existing article lands on broken desktop version of results page
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	AxelBoldt
	Feb 28 2014, 9:04 PM

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On Kindle 3 (Kindle Keyboard) running software version Kindle 3.4, go to Home/Menu/Search and search Wikipedia for a non-existing article, say "Georgias". You end up on the desktop version of the search results page

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/search.php?Georgias

which is spectacularly unsuited for the Kindle:

1)If you use the search box in the upper right on that page and enter some characters, a list of search completions is displayed; this list vanishes immediately, and your entered text is selected. If you now continue typing, the text entered earlier is overwritten.

2)If you use the main search box on that page, a list of search completions is also displayed. While this list does not immediately vanish, it will do so if you try to select one of its entries.

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Severity: normal
OS: Linux

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Reference: bz62075

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Needs Triage.Nov 22 2014, 3:05 AM

• bzimport added a project: MobileFrontend-stable.

• bzimport set Reference to bz62075.

• bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).

AxelBoldt created this task.Feb 28 2014, 9:04 PM

It seems to send me to:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?search=Georgias

I note if I go into the URL bar and add a "/" after the "wiki", it redirects me to the mobile subdomain:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/?search=Georgias

and I get a mobile view of the search results as expected.

Probably there's a bug in the mobile redirection that's looking for "/wiki/" and not counting "/wiki?"

It seems to send me to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?search=Georgias

Yes, me too. The URL in my report was incorrect.

bingle-admin wrote:

Prioritization and scheduling of this bug is tracked on Mingle card https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/mobile/cards/1738

jgonera wrote:

Is "Home/Menu/Search" something on the mobile web site of Wikipedia (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/) or is it some kind of Kindle's built-in menu?

"Home/Menu/Search" refers to the Kindle's buttons/menus. Press the Home button, then the Menu button, then choose the Search option, then enter a non-existing Wikipedia article, then choose "search wikipedia".

So basically as Brion stated the URL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?search=Georgias on a Kindle is not redirecting to the mobile site for some reason. Adding a / makes the redirect work.

Note this also happens on an iPhone and is not specific to Kindle - should probably rename the bug to be clearer about this.

This is an issue with the redirector.

This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 62222 ***

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