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Question about DAZ url

RonwaldRonwald Posts: 71
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I hope someone can solve this mystery for me.

I was doing a search for a DAZ item on Google, and the link came up as hpcl.daz3d.com instead of just daz3d.com. And stupid me, without thinking I logged in with my password.

Did I hit a fake site? Or is that just some other (and safe) Daz url?

 

 

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  • bytescapesbytescapes Posts: 1,850

    It's very unlikely that that's a fake site.

    'hpcl.daz3d.com' is under the 'daz3d.com' domain, which should mean that -- whatever it is -- DAZ has control of it. If it had been 'daz3d.hpcl.com', on the other hand, you would be right to be worried, as that would be a host controlled by whoever owns the 'hpcl.com' domain. But as it is, I think you're fine.

     My guess is that 'hpcl.daz3d.com' is probably a development host, or perhaps it's an alternative name for 'daz3d.com' that has somehow been indexed by Google.

    To avoid anxiety in future, I strongly recommend getting a password manager such as 1Password or LastPass. Password managers aren't just a way to store your passwords safely so that you don't have to remember them or write them down. They also come with browser extensions that will enter your password for you -- and if it's not the right site, they won't enter the password. For example, if you have a saved password for 'daz3d.com', and someone tricks you into going to 'daz3dd.com' -- which looks just like the daz3d.com site, but isn't -- your password manager won't try to enter your 'daz3d.com' password on 'daz3dd.com' (pro tip: if your password manager doesn't seem to want to enter your password on a site, stop and check very carefully that you're really on the site that you think you're on).

     

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,066
    edited December 2021

    I thought someone asked a similar question a while ago (two or three years ago), but I don't remember what the additional URL bits were... 

    The only meaning behind "hpcl" I could find is Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited... which I doubt has anything to do with DAZ... then again a few years ago I'd have doubted Tafi would be related to DAZ in any way... At this point if someone told me Lobstermen from Pluto owned Tafi, I'd be like "Ok... I guess... sure".

    I'd go with bytescapes' theory... But honestly... Lobstermen oil tycoons seems equally possible these days.

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  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,535

    I recall something like this using Google site search too and I was already signed in

  • RonwaldRonwald Posts: 71

    bytescapes said:

    It's very unlikely that that's a fake site.

    'hpcl.daz3d.com' is under the 'daz3d.com' domain, which should mean that -- whatever it is -- DAZ has control of it. If it had been 'daz3d.hpcl.com', on the other hand, you would be right to be worried, as that would be a host controlled by whoever owns the 'hpcl.com' domain. But as it is, I think you're fine.

     My guess is that 'hpcl.daz3d.com' is probably a development host, or perhaps it's an alternative name for 'daz3d.com' that has somehow been indexed by Google.

     

     

    Thank you for the reply. I feel less anxious now. :)

    However, I did change my password (once I exited the hpcl page and was back on just daz3d) immediately just to be safe.

    I will look into the password managers you mentioned. They sound like they would be a good solution to problems like this.

     

    McGyver, I had the same result as you did with a search for hpcl. The only thing I could find was that petroleum company.

  • RonwaldRonwald Posts: 71
    edited December 2021

    WendyLuvsCatz said:

    I recall something like this using Google site search too and I was already signed in

    I wasn't, but about every two weeks or so when I come to the Daz site, I find I have to enter my password again. The keep me logged in check box seems to have a time limit.

    I just thought it was one of those times. I didn't notice the different url until after I had entered my password. 

    Post edited by Ronwald on
  • TheMysteryIsThePointTheMysteryIsThePoint Posts: 3,012

    I hope that you are perodically changing your paswords anyway.

  • DAZ_RawbDAZ_Rawb Posts: 817

    hpcl is a Daz owned site.

     

    HPCL stands (stood?) for "High-Performance Caching Layer" and was a separate set of servers that would cache product and ownership information because those lookups took the old store software so long it would both crash the old store software and slow down the login process with DIM to miserable levels. The servers are no longer in use after we moved to the new store software about a year ago we brought that code in and now it's hosted on an auto-scaled redundent cluster of web servers (currently running on about 22 servers). Both DIM and Daz Central still use that host for their dynamic requests but trying to browse the store on it would be pretty miserable because the CDN wouldn't be set to cache much there.

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