Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
Challenge: Pull up the Taco Bell desktop site on your iPhone
- Thread starter Patrick G
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
I don't have the iPhone at hands right now, but no problem with the iPad.
What's wrong?
I don't know the Taco Bell site, but generally you can access the full sites using an alternative browser that allows you to set the User Agent string to that of a desktop browser (e.g. iCab), so the web server does not see that you are on a mobile device.
Just tried tacobell.com with iCab on the iPhone: I get the desktop site when I set the user agent to Safari(iPad) or Safari 6 (Mac).
Confirmed.
I usually use Mercury but even with its User Agent set for various interations of Firefox, IE, Chrome, Opera, and even Safari (iPad), it still sent me to the mobile site. I just tried iCab for the first time (using the Safari (iPad) option) and that correctly goes right to the desktop site.
Mercury on my iPad Air2 did work properly to get to the desktop site but not the version on the iPhone 6+.
I can't believe I went through this exercise for a takeout place that I think I've only been too like twice...
With each change of User Agent on Mercury and before I downloaded and tried iCab, I cleared the hell out of the cache on the browser just in case it was trying to pull up the mobile image already cached on the phone.
Am wondering if the mobile site is cached on your phone and keeps getting pulled up including in iCab...? Also as a sidenote, I am running 8.1. (not sure if that makes any difference).
Did you visit the site with the default user agent first? If yes, try deleting the cookies.
I could be wrong but I don't think they have to give you the desktop site. So Taco Bell is just choosing not to give it you the desktop site.
Challenge: Pull up the Taco Bell desktop site on your iPhone
No. Deleted all history and cookies. Still get the mobile site. Wonder if it's a service provider issue.
No. Deleted all history and cookies. Still get the mobile site. Wonder if it's a service provider issue.
This only applies if they detect you are accessing from a mobile device. I'm questioning how they know I'm on a mobile device if I'm emulating a desktop browser.
Hmm. Maybe Taco Bell's got skill or something...
I dont know. Maybe they can see what kind of device your on. I have no idea what websites can and can not see, but I know MacRumors will sometimes show how many unreleased versions of iOS are coming to MacRumors.
I'm not sure how they know but I have had this exact same frustration with youtube.com, I was trying to visit the desktop site on my iPhone 6+ and it kept reverting me to the m.youtube.com Despite requesting desktop version and also numerous times even removing the m. from he address bar.
Yes, I understand that. What I don't understand is, how do they know I'm on a mobile (i.e. small) device when I'm using desktop emulation.
The device and the site swap data. Your device (or your browser perhaps) tells the site that it's not a desktop.
It is possible for the web page to determine the screen dimensions using Javascript (e.g. using the availWidth/availHeight screen properties). But why would it work with iCab for Sprintina and me, but not you?