Unified View broken on iPhone

[polyglot]

Hi,

If I visit the forum from an iPhone 4 (running iOS 5.0.1), the forum mostly works fine. However if I click Unified View, I get "Sorry - no matches. Please try some different terms."

What seems to be happening is that the phone has stored the fact that the search page returns a redirection to the search results, therefore it immediately goes to the same old (now expunged) search-id every time I click, without actually performing the search.

I haven't checked the HTTP codes the forum uses, but I think it should be "302 Moved Temporarily" not "301 Moved Permanently" for this purpose. If a 301 is used, that would explain why the phone caches the redirection.

It works fine on desktop browsers.

[Lachlan 717]

I have the same issue with "New Posts" and "Today's Posts" since I updated my iPhone 4's software to 5.0.1 last week.

[Kirk Gittings]

Hmmm.........I have an IPod Touch 4 with 5.0.1 and everything works fine.

[Robert Ellis]

That's odd. It works fine with my iPhone 4S with 5.0.1. Have you tried clearing the cookies and cache under Setting>Safari?

[Light Guru]

It is a KNOWN issue with this site. There have been several other threads about it.

[Lachlan 717]

It is a KNOWN issue with this site. There have been several other threads about it.

What, exactly, is the known problem?

Is it an issue with the Forum hosting software? Is it an issue with 5.0.1? Is it an issue with iPhone 4 updating to current software incarnation?

[Kirk Gittings]

It is a KNOWN issue with this site. There have been several other threads about it.

So why is it working fine on the iPod touch do you think? Same technology and software...Except just wifi and no phone.

[Henry Carter]

Neither the "Unified View" nor the "New Posts" functions work on my new iPad, but I am having no trouble posting this reply.
So both the iPad and the iPhone have the same issue with this forum...

[polyglot]

So why is it working fine on the iPod touch do you think? Same technology and software...Except just wifi and no phone.

That is indeed a puzzle. I suspect that you maybe have a very slightly subtly different version of the browser from me, since it used to work. I don't know whether the breakage has been caused by LFPF upgrades or my phone upgrades. Or it could be a matter of some browser setting (e.g. disable cookies) disabling the redirection caching on yours, I don't know.

However, this is a definite problem that I and others can replicate reliably, and the LFPF forum output is wrong according to the HTTP specification for this purpose. The fact that it works on other browsers is I suspect due to other browsers working around quirky software like this.

And of course I have a much much better chance of getting LFPF to fix the forum software than I do of having Apple change their quirks-handling code!

[evan clarke]

I'm using Atomic Browser and it seems to be free of this issue. Under Safari and ios5 5.0.1 couldn't get the links to work. Atomic also seems to do well with sites who want to force you to a mobile version like ESPN, taking you to the traditional site...EC