[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 129681] [GTK] Too many redirects visiting www.globalforestwatch.org

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=129681


Sergio Villar Senin <svillar at igalia.com> changed:

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                 CC|                            |gns at gnome.org,
                   |                            |mrobinson at webkit.org




--- Comment #6 from Sergio Villar Senin <svillar at igalia.com>  2014-03-12 10:19:48 PST ---
(In reply to comment #5)
> (In reply to comment #4)
> 
> > Great, what if you directly visit http://www.globalforestwatch.org/notsupportedbrowser ?
> 
> If I load "http://www.globalforestwatch.org/notsupportedbrowser" in MiniBrowser using Chrome's UA, the page is loaded successfully.
> 
> I also tested it in Safari as I thought that as MiniBrowser uses the same UA as Safari it should fail on Safari too. However in Safari it worked. Why is that? The difference between MiniBrowser UA and Safari UA is that Safari UA has a "Version" string. For instance:
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> "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_8) AppleWebKit/537.13+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1.7 Safari/534.57.2"
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> I pressume that in the case of detecting the browser is a Safari, the code that checks the browser support may try to fetch the version string too, as not all versions of Safari might be supported by this site.
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> In fact, just by editing MiniBrowser UA and add "Version/6.0", the page gets loaded. If I try doing the same using "Version/3.0" the "too many redirects" error happens.

Awesome report. Martin, Gustavo what do you think about tunning a bit our UA? This time isn't about replacing Chrome by Safari or something but just adding the "Version" thing Diego mentioned.

It looks like it isn't only about this site, but I get many "unsupported browser" messages on sites that work fine with Safari versions older than my builds.

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