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?

[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

[polyglot]

(please ignore this post, I'm getting the counter to roll over to ensure a new Unified search result)

[polyglot]

Deleting data and history on the iPhone made it work once.

I noted that my desktop was going to the same searchid, presumably for lack of new posts, so I made the above post and watched the searchid roll over. Click the link again on the phone, get the old searchid and the stale-data error.

I had a look at the web server output of the Unified View link and it's a 301 as I suspected. I therefore think it is the fault of the forum software and that iPhone Safari is doing the officially-correct thing. Probably the other browsers have a "don't cache redirects when the target has CGI-GET parameters" hack in them.

vetinari:~%wget --save-headers 'http://www.largeformatphotography.info/forum/search.php?do=getdaily&days=30&exclude=27,17,16'
--23:59:14-- http://www.largeformatphotography.in...clude=27,17,16
=> `search.php?do=getdaily&days=30&exclude=27,17,16'
Resolving www.largeformatphotography.info... 204.152.186.72
Connecting to www.largeformatphotography.info|204.152.186.72|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently
Location: http://www.largeformatphotography.in...archid=5315811 [following]

... etc

[Bob McCarthy]

Good show, really good show

maybe it will get fixed now.

bob