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nokia n810 won't load brightkite universe
on my nokia n810 I can browse almost everything on the site fine but for some reason the brightkite universe link tells me it wants to download the file instead of actually trying to view it. I don't know if its just due to the name "objects" or what.
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Inappropriate?We don't have an N810 to test with, but we're currently working on a mobile version that should work with any mobile device/browser (hoping to have it out later this week).
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Inappropriate?I tried the iphone page link (didn't take long to find) and oddly enough that does let me view it. I don't know what the difference is. -
Inappropriate?If i save the source and go to it, its fine, but it doesn't like the link, of course what it downloads is a georss feed of the page
that might help track it down, I don't know where it is getting that the type for the page is "georss+xml" -
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Inappropriate?It would seem that this is an issue related to BK's handling of the user-agent that is specified when we are using the N810's mozilla browser. When I browse using the N810, the user-agent specified is:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux armv6l; en-US; rv:1.9a6pre) Gecko/20071128 Firefox/3.0a1 Tablet browser 0.2.2 RX-34+RX-44_2008SE_2.2007.50-2
On the N810 I can successfully access almost the entire BK website with the exception of the "BrightKite Universe" and viewing my friends in the "List view". In both instances the website returns an "application/georss+xm" file.
I know that BK has both a mobile and an iPhone web interface, but that is not an acceptable resolution. One of the reasons I got the N810 was so I could have a full browser and could view websites and see the same thing as I would on my desktop.
The N810 has no problem showing my friendstream and the "Around Me" page. These are no different than what would be displayed on the BK Universe page.
Definitely sounds like a user-agent related coding bug since your website only does this for two of the links.
I’m frustrated
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It sounds like a problem with the Accept headers...is there any way you could send us what Accept headers your browser is sending?
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That may be a little difficult to capture but I'll see what I can do to get that for you.
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Inappropriate?It took some work but I was able to capture the HTTP request from the N810. Here is what was captured when clicking on "BrightKite Universe":
GET /objects HTTP/1.1
Host: brightkite.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux armv6l; en-US; rv:1.9a6pre) Gecko/20071128 Firefox/3.0a1 Tablet browser 0.2.2 RX-34+RX-44_2008SE_2.2007.50-2
Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/atom+xml,application/rss+xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Keep-Alive: 300
Connection: keep-alive
Referer: http://brightkite.com/people/techmonk...
The only request header that I did not include above was the cookie that was being sent.
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That helps, thanks for putting it together. It seems that the problem lies in text/xml being the first Accept type.
I think we'll have to get creative to find a workaround...for now, try calling http://brightkite.com/objects.html -
Thanks! the objects.html link works! FYI: The same issue exists when clicking on the "List View" link on the Friends page. BTW, if I haven't mentioned it already, I really love your service. Keep up the good work!
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Inappropriate?Not sure what happened in the last few days but now I can't get past the BK login page with my N810. When I log in and it goes to my friendstream, I am seeing the same issue with the data being returned of type "application/georss+xml". Currently this makes the main BK site unusable on the N810.
I’m frustrated
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Techmonkey, I'm very sorry you are experiencing this issue. We are looking into the problem. Your patience has been great, we really appreciate it.
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Inappropriate?8 months and this has not been addressed at all. The Nokia N810 has a full Mozilla browser yet BrightKite.com thinks it can only handle RSS feeds. I have previously even provided the full HTTP GET request that is being sent in a effort to help supply information that could be used to debug. FOr clarification, yes, this is a bug.
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Is it the RSS feed you're getting or XML?
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Inappropriate?I ran this through a debug proxy and this is the HTTP request:
GET /people/techmonkey/friendstream HTTP/1.1
Host: brightkite.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux armv6l; en-US; rv:1.9a6pre) Gecko/20080828 Firefox/3.0a1 Tablet browser 0.3.7 RX-34+RX-44+RX-48_DIABLO_5.2008.43-7
Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/atom+xml,application/rss+xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Keep-Alive: 300
Connection: keep-alive
Here is the associated HTTP response:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx/0.6.34
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 01:31:45 GMT
Content-Type: application/georss+xml; charset=utf-8
Etag: "2547605b76b87741c3cdec315382cac6"
X-Runtime: 0.83871
Cache-Control: private, max-age=0, must-revalidate
Set-Cookie: _brightkite_session=d8398d1413ef6fd1822e52f76e1832cd; path=/
Content-Length: 30857
Connection: Keep-alive
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This comment was removed on 02/11/09.
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Essentially, the problem is that your browser (incorrectly) requests
Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/atom+xml,application/rss+xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Accept headers are usually processed in a way that things that appear first have preference. Your browser has a bunch of stuff before text/html, which is probably the format you actually want. When I move text/html to the front, it seems to work.
We might be able to work around this based on your UserAgent. I'll look into it. -
Inappropriate?We just deployed a workaround for this. Give it another try and let us know if you continue to have problems.
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Inappropriate?Did a full test and it all appears to be working just fine. I appreciate the workaround for this browser.
I am also contacting the developers to have them evaluate the Mozilla browser Accept header for this platform. I compared it against other versions of Mozilla/Firefox and it is different for where text/html is in the sequence.
Thank you for the assistance.
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