Problem: m.cnn.com automatically redirects to cnnmobile international site

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7. April 2010, 17:17:10

chamcha

Posts: 2

Problem: m.cnn.com automatically redirects to cnnmobile international site

I have Opera Mobile 10. I am using Windows Mobile 6.5 on a Samsung Intrepid. I am in the United States.

The problem is that every time I go to m.cnn.com on Opera Mobile, it is wrongly redirected to the cnnmobile.com international site. I want the m.cnn.com United States site.

When I try m.cnn.com on Internet Explorer Mobile, the US site comes up with no problem.

How can I get the m.cnn.com site to come up correctly as a US site on Opera Mobile?

8. April 2010, 19:01:31

Opera Software

dmarks

Tester Extraordinaire

Posts: 189

This is a case of browser sniffing on behalf of the CNN webmaster and is something that's out of Opera's control. Please contact CNN and ask them to fix their browser sniffing routines.

14. April 2010, 14:38:42

TN77

Posts: 6

I disagree with this statement: This is a case of browser sniffing on behalf of the CNN webmaster and is something that's out of Opera's control.

I'm on Opera Mini 5, and I can type m.cnn.com or cnnmobile.com into the address bar, and I'm taken to the mobile CNN page. However, if I try to add either address into Speed Dial, Opera Mini stores a different address than what I have entered! This is an Opera Mini bug. I should be able to store any URL I want as a Speed Dial; it shouldn't try to "correct" my URL, which obviously makes it worse.

At this point I'm forced to type the URL every time I want to visit the site; I cannot just press *3. Terrible.

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