Story URLs not consistent between site versions

5 Oct 2020

If this is a bug, please give credit to user She, as she found it.

I use the desktop site (www.lushstories.com) on my phone. I tried sending her a link to my story, copied from the My Stories page, which gave me the following URL:

https://www.lushstories.com/stories/outdoor/-campfire-revelations-.aspx

When She tried to go to it using the mobile version (m.lushstories.com) she got a 404 page not found error. I tried opening it in an incognito tab to bypass my usual settings, and sure enough it turned the URL into: https://m.lushstories.com/?url=stories%2foutdoor%2f-campfire-revelations-.aspx

Which just seems to be a list of most recent stories. If I change the www to m and remove the .aspx, making it:
https://m.lushstories.com/stories/outdoor/-campfire-revelations-
it works. Ticking the Desktop Version box in Chrome and then going to the original URL also works. So something seems to be wrong in the address translation between URLs for the two versions.

If course, this might be due to the current SSL certificate issue.

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6 Oct 2020

They are coded on 2 totally different platforms (asp.net and a cloud based solution) so they aren't consistent. You are correct.

6 Oct 2020

Quote by nicola
They are coded on 2 totally different platforms (asp.net and a cloud based solution) so they aren't consistent. You are correct.

Thanks, that makes sense. Not I know I can change the URL of it's ever needed.

Would it be possible to add some sort of IF clause to the code to grab the intended destination from the request header and convert it? At the moment it just dumps everything from /stories onwards in that guff after the question mark, it would just need to strip the .aspx and change www to m.

Doesn't matter to me now, but if someone was externally promoting a story by linking to it on a blog or Twitter, anyone clicking the link on a mobile device will get the error. Personally, if I had never heard of LushStories and clicked a link purporting to be to something specific and I just get a random selection of unrelated titles and ads, I would assume I've landed on one of those annoying spam link loops and leave straight away, so you could be missing out on people discovering the best erotic story site the is and not giving you their sweet, sweet cash.

On the other hand, that could be marginal and not worth the effort, but thought I'd better mention it.

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