Mobile devices aren't always redirected to the proper mobile search results page
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	AxelBoldt
	Mar 4 2014, 7:19 PM

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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

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=Georgias

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.

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Severity: normal

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Reference: bz62222

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Needs Triage.Nov 22 2014, 2:57 AM

• bzimport added a project: MobileFrontend-stable.

• bzimport set Reference to bz62222.

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

AxelBoldt created this task.Mar 4 2014, 7:19 PM

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.

bingle-admin wrote:

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

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