Hacked?

Marlowe

I just checked my statcounter report this morning after adding a slideshow to my HOMEPAGE , and I found the following link under one user (chrome 5.0):

www.cyclingphotos.ca/ria/ShizamSlides-2009120303.swf?noTagBacks=true&AlbumID=11915431&clickUrl=/ROAD-2010/&showSpeed=false&newWindow=true&transparent=false&showLogo=false&randomStart=true&borderThickness=0&borderColor=1464F4&showThumbs=false&showBu

Which is a link to a slideshow from within the hidden gallery (in which I had image size set to "original"). Does this mean someone, through my homepage slideshow, found a way to this hidden gallery? As far as I know I can't password protect this album if I want the images to be in the slideshow.

Jon

jasonscottphoto

Marlowe wrote:

I just checked my statcounter report this morning after adding a slideshow to my HOMEPAGE , and I found the following link under one user (chrome 5.0):

www.cyclingphotos.ca/ria/ShizamSlides-2009120303.swf?noTagBacks=true&AlbumID=11915431&clickUrl=/ROAD-2010/&showSpeed=false&newWindow=true&transparent=false&showLogo=false&randomStart=true&borderThickness=0&borderColor=1464F4&showThumbs=false&showBu

Which is a link to a slideshow from within the hidden gallery (in which I had image size set to "original"). Does this mean someone, through my homepage slideshow, found a way to this hidden gallery? As far as I know I can't password protect this album if I want the images to be in the slideshow.

Jon

Was it green like this? That's a referring link. They clicked your slideshow to get to whatever page was shown in black. (I think) Also, it isn't a link to your gallery. It is a link to your homepage slideshow, without the homepage...

Marlowe

I thought of the same thing, but what made me think otherwise was the fact that it wasn't the link to the image itself, but a link to an image slide in the slideshow of the source gallery for the homepage slideshow.

Another reason is I checked myself from my girlfriend's computer and this is what I get when I click on the homepage gallery:

"No referring link
www.cxphotos.smugmug.com/ROAD-2010/Midweek-April-20"

Same thing here on two different computers, one using my direct internet access and the other using my neighbour's wireless from my laptop.

I clicked the slideshow 5 times with 5 similar results. The referring link was never the image itself in it's own gallery's slideshow, or the image itself in the gallery.

Not that I watch statcounter all day, but I've not seen anything like this in the two years I've had it!


Just never seen that before, which is why it made me wonder. I had switched the max viewing size to "medium" immediately after noticing, so no harm done I think.

Jon

jasonscottphoto

I've been seeing it only just recently too, but I still don't think it is the gallery's slideshow because it says "ShizamSlides" which is the homepage slideshow.

Have you embedded the slideshow anyplace else? I know I have put one on our facebook page, so was thinking maybe that was the referring page for mine...

Marlowe

No I haven't, it's only on my homepage. It just seems weird. I would expect the referring link to be to the image in the gallery, not the image in it's gallery's slideshow ( I don't mean the homepage one). I just cut and paste the slideshow code for my homepage with no idea how it works, but this would suggest to me that it runs the gallery's slideshow (as if you clicked the gallery "slideshow" button) to show it on the homepage slideshow.

Anyway, I don't worry now that that I set the referrence gallery max image size to medium. It sure appeared from the statcounter file that this person looked at all the photos, which may by itself appear that it just went through the slideshow, but the timecodes showed that he spent more than 20 seconds on at least five of the 20 or so images.

Just seems fishy

BTW, how did you embed the slideshow on your Facebook page? I am having a hard time personalizing mine!

Thanks,
Jon

jasonscottphoto

The referring link is where they came from. If they clicked on your slideshow, that might be where Statcounter thinks they came from. The Shizam slideshow (homepage slideshow) is different from the gallery slideshow, I believe.

Your slideshow is set up so that when people click on it, they go to this link: http://www.cyclingphotos.ca/ROAD-2010/

You can change that...

As for facebook...

I use Static FBML (http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=4949752878) to add custom tabs to my facebook fan page. There are lots of tutorials here: http://www.hyperarts.com/

I used this: http://smugshowbuilder.appspot.com/ to make the slideshows you see on my static FBML tabs.

Marlowe

Hey thanks for the links; I have static FMBL but just couldn't get it to work for me, even after following their directions. Just too used to the ease of personalizing my Smumgmug site!

Jon

jasonscottphoto

Marlowe wrote:

Hey thanks for the links; I have static FMBL but just couldn't get it to work for me, even after following their directions. Just too used to the ease of personalizing my Smumgmug site!

Jon

Yeah, you definitely need to know a little more about html for static FBML than you do for smugmug.

hollybaumann

I built my HTML using the smugshowbuilder site you provided, but when I pasted the HTML code it generated into the box on the FB app, nothing happened. It's just a blank white screen. What did I do wrong?