Help! Someone stealing my galleries

JerryBartonJerryBarton Registered Users Posts: 147 Major grins
edited September 7, 2009 in SmugMug Support
The Damien Blair Photography site (smugmug based) http://www.dblairphoto.com has put links in his site directly to my galleries as if they were his.

Specifically, for example, he has my Vienna gallery as
http://www.dblairphoto.com/gallery/7986304_3kMN8#P-3-30
The real address is http://www.jerrybarton.eu/Landscapes/Vienna/7986304_3kMN8#519031970_qZF9P.

Similarly for the Austria gallery, the Danube gallery, the family snaps gallery, even the 'about me' and comments galleries.

So either Smugmug has a big problem, or he is doing something unethical.

Can someone please stop whatever is happening?

Thanks.
www.jerrybarton.eu


Updated a bit later: This really looks like a SmugMug Bug - any Smugmug site can take the gallery identifiers (for example, for my Canals gallery 8068199_FK3HC#525607787_CfPAF) and append it as SiteName/gallery/identifier and that gallery is returned. That should be impossible, except for the owning URL.
Jerry in Vienna http://www.jerrybarton.eu

Comments

  • cabbeycabbey Registered Users Posts: 1,053 Major grins
    edited September 7, 2009
    Howdy Jerry,

    It's not anything that Damien is doing intentionally. It's a bug, one that we've fixed 1/3 of on the live site, another 1/3 of is fixed internally and queued to go out with our next shipment, and the remaining 1/3 of we're at the mercy of the search engines to refresh their indexes.

    The first third of the bug that has already been fixed on the live site was that via communities, it was possible for urls like that with the wrong domain name to be handed out. So anyone that is in a community with you when you publish a new gallery in a community could potentially have had your gallery shown on the end of their domain name on the community page. This is fixed on the live site, so no more bad urls will be given out. In your Vienna case, it's the EuropeanTravelers community.

    The second third of the bug has been fixed internally and will be pushed out to the live site real soon. This is the part where when you visit a url with the wrong domain name, if it's NOT a new style NiceNames url, then we were incorrectly serving it up. Instead now we will be serving up a redirect to your correct site.

    The final part of this is just waiting for the search engines to flush these bad urls out of their systems... once the second part goes into play it should help speed that up, as they will get a redirection as soon as they try to use it.

    Sorry you had to stumble over this, it's a recent bug, and one that will be short lived in the grand scheme of things. I'm sure our testing folks have made notes for preventing this kind of thing happening again in the future.
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  • JerryBartonJerryBarton Registered Users Posts: 147 Major grins
    edited September 7, 2009
    Hello Cabbey,

    Thanks for the reply and good luck with the roll-out.

    Every once in a while I go to a famous web search engine and type in "jerry barton austria" - and this time it came up with Damien's web site (as well as mine) - which kind of blew my mind.

    I hope this clears quickly. I'm not a top player, but what I have I like to flaunt myself - not give the credit to others.:D

    Jerry
    Jerry in Vienna http://www.jerrybarton.eu
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