Appending ?device=desktop multiple google indexes

Ok, first time poster on d.o, fresh from drupalcon chi. I'm pretty sure this is going to violate some protocol since I'm actually on 6.x-2.1, but I'm having the same issue and I think I can help, so here goes. If anyone wants to chime in and let me know where this should have gone, please do.

I couldn't find any reference in the module code to a 'mobile' querystring variable. I did find a 'nomobile' in $_GET, with comment "// backwards compatibility with the nomobile parameter," so apparently this is old, but it does work. My [site].com redirects mobile users to m.[site].com. Mobile users going to [site].com/?nomobile=true successfully sets the cookie to redirect to desktop. [site].com/?nomobile=false unsets it, and sends back to m.[site].com.

Important note: sending mobile users who desire deskop to m.[site].com/?nomobile=true (notice the m.) does not work, since it sets a cookie on that domain, then redirects to [site].com where there is no cookie, so it redirects to m.[site].com which redirects back, so we have a redirect loop, which is nobody's idea of a good friggin time.

I tried setting the cookie domain (which my colleague pointed out sounds like cookie dough mane; who wouldn't want one) in settings.php to [site].com so that the cookies are the same and the redirect loop doesn't happen, but I haven't been able to get it to work and I figured my time would be better spent posting long-winded half-solutions on d.o. Bye.

Hi all,

Thx for the feedback on the module. Currently there is some confusion with the nomobile=true functionality.

Some time ago, I decided to replace that functionality by a more transparent way of controlling the output.
You can now use

• ?device=desktop => force the the device to be recognized as desktop
• ?device=mobile => force the the device to be recognized as desktop
• ?device=[device_group] => force the the device to be recognized as the specified device group
• ?device=auto => reset everything and enable the normal behavior

This method allows much more flexibility and removes the double negation ?nomobile=false

http://drupal.org/node/459686 - see Force the user to see a specific version of the site (I updated the documentation)

I also removed all references to the ?nomobile method... It is hard to keep backwards compatibility :)

Let me know if you see any other issues, or improvements I can make in the documentation.

yes, that was a type:

?device=mobile forces the device to be recognized as mobile!

Glad it all works for you!

tried the latest dev and still doesn't work.

?device=desktop (try to force desktop version while using a mobile device) works for the first time, but then any link goes to redirection loop

?device=mobile (try to force mobile version when using a desktop) have no effect at all

My problem seems to be caused by the "REQUEST_TIME", this is not defined on my server, so the cookie always expires and never get set.

It looks like this constant is introduced in Drupal 7 but not available in Drupal 6.

I changed it to use "$_SERVER['REQUEST_TIME']", as attached.

Does this setting get done in the admin url area? Not sure where to place it.

Hello,

I'm encountering some problems with dev version:

On a desktop:
When I browse my site using ?device=mobile, I see the mobile version as it should.
If I use ?device=desktop, I see the desktop version.
If I use ?device=auto, I see the desktop version.
If I use no argument, I always see the mobile version, even on a desktop computer.

I think there is a problem with the cookie setting, I don't have time to dig up the code right now, but the dev version is clearly not usable. (I took it because I had this bug #1105750: Call to undefined function url())

@yang_yi_cn: I think your patch is now useless, they are using time() in place of $_SERVER['REQUEST_TIME'] in the dev version.

This issue seems to still be relevant.

We are using the stable version but when clicking on the view full site it goes to the full site unless user clicks a link at which time it takes them back to the mobile site.

If "Switch theme based on the URL" is checked then this isnt working.

Marked #1632410: Device doing an infinite loop on blackberry devices as a duplicate.

our redirections are working perfectly with the ?device= variable. we have links in the footer on our desktop and mobile themes that will allow the user to force-switch the theme ... however ... google has taken it upon themselves to index 3 versions of the same page:

for instance:
http://www.example.com/about-us
http://www.example.com/about-us?device=mobile
http://www.example.com/about-us?device=desktop

are all 3 indexed as separate pages. is there a way to hide the appended variable or some way to prohibit indexing the variabled url?

Hi All,

For Drupal 7 I created a custom block and its working fine.. (place the block as per the requirement where u need )...

function mobile_tools_block_view($delta) {
$block = array();
if($delta == "mobile_tools"){
$block['content'] = mobile_tools_block_message();
}
return $block;
}

/**
* Helper function returning the configurable message for the notification
*/
function mobile_tools_block_message() {

$site = _mobile_tools_site_detection();

if ($site == 'mobile' ) {
$output = variable_get('mobile_tools_desktop_url', '');
$output = l(t('View Full Site'),'http://'. $output, array('#theme' => 'theme_default'));
echo $output;
}
else if ($site == 'desktop' ) {
$output = variable_get('mobile_tools_mobile_url', '');
$output = l(t('View Mobile Site'),'http://'. $output, array('#theme' => 'theme'));
echo $output;
}

}

I am closing this issue, as it's for a Drupal version no longer supported.