Pictures in Marketplace lead to another website

[Wilde Destiny]

I would like to know if it is normal or even allowed for pictures of products on Marketplace to take you to another site since that would allow for malicious sites to affect people looking at products on Marketplace.

This person https://marketplace.secondlife.com/stores/57137 has all his pictures leading to https://d1ij7zv8zivhs3.cloudfront.net so when you click to zoom the picture it does not zoom but instead takes you to the cloudfront site.

 

 

[Marcus Hancroft]

Hmmm...I didn't know it was even possible to hyperlink in the photo section.  It's not normal I can tell ya that.  I've never had that happen.

[Arwen Serpente]

Hi Wilde,

I wonder if there is something going on with your browser that is making that happen. I just went to that MP store and clicked about half a dozen pics, went to the zoom and additional pics, and it stayed on the MP site.

[Wilde Destiny]

hiya Arwen

I don't know if it's my browser but it only happens to his stuff so there is something wrong somewhere with his stuff. When I look at other stuff by anyone else it does not happen.

[Kampu Oyen]

I am also not seeing the reported phenomenon.

I'm not quick to dismiss such things, though.

[Flea Yatsenko]

Cloudfront is Amazon Web Services. You're not getting hacked or anything, the server is just messing up when it sends you a file. Either that or the website is malfunctioning and not using the fancy code to make the images popup, and is instead falling back to just displaying the image.

 

[Nathan Fadlan]

I have the same problem with several of my items. the pictures and related items are all messed up and directing to other stores. I have only just noticed it and have no idea how long it's been like this, hoping i don't have to re-do them all AGAIN.

[Wilde Destiny]

Nathan I think your issue is related to the first  and second issues mentioned here: http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Merchants/Marketplace-and-Direct-Delivery-Update/td-p/1462915

Yeah Flea i think it's gotta be the marketplace just being borked with a bunch of problems for a while so i won't worry too much about it but it did concern me that the person who's shop I was looking at was selling a known freebie desert eagle .50 for 800L$ and then the pics led to another site. I thought it's better to mention the issue here and see if it was normal.

[Zanara Zenovka]

MP runs on Amazon cloudfront servers - if you watch any page loading you'll see it being redirected to the cloud url.

[Ry0ta Exonar]

That's quite normal. Has been always like that but it doesn't happen to all the stores. As for my store, all the images are shown within that floater window when you click them to zoom, but for some stores what you described happens.

[Amethyst Jetaime]

Actually its a feature of the MP and handy too if you need to show more than the number of pictures allowed on the listing for customers to get a good look at your product, such as a house with a number of rooms.  You have to click the view more images link for it to happen though.  So don't click it if you don't want to leave the MP