[PLUG] mobile only website hijacking

Daniel Herrington herda05 at gmail.com
Sat Feb 18 20:38:29 UTC 2017


Thanks Ed. I just don't understand how a typo or bug in the mobile version
of the site on wix.com sends the mobile request to a fully formed mobile
website for the restaurant on places.singleplatform.com.

Im trying to understand how ultimately this happens. Is it code in their
main website that redirects based on the identification of a mobile device?
The question then becomes how did it get there, was it something they
accidentially enabled, wix itself, or singleplatform taking advantage of my
buddies website on wix?

thanks,
Dan H.

On Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 11:21 AM, King Beowulf <kingbeowulf at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 02/18/2017 10:30 AM, Daniel Herrington wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > I'm hoping someone can help me understand how web presence companies such
> > as singleplatform hijack a restaurants mobile site?
> >
> > My friends site returns correctly on the laptop, but redirects to
> > singleplatform's site, in what appears to be a redirect after you hit the
> > actual mobile site. The site is on wix.com, and the whois shows my buddy
> > still owns the domain.
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> I would contact wix.com before you assume a highjacking. There probably
> is a typo or bug in the mobile version site formatting - e.g.,
> computer/laptop monitor vs. phone vs tablet - or possibly DNS since it
> looks like singleplatform uses squarespace as host.
>
> Also, wix is not automatically mobile responsive - although the desktop
> templates should be viewable on the mobile device - so you need to set
> up the mobile version via an editor.
>
> -Ed
>
>
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