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How Optimum.net hijacks a browser request for jQuery from the Google CDN

• whitehat2k9 13y ago
  Can someone explain what exactly this does?
  • STHayden 13y ago
    If you run the JS in the console you see a "powered by optimum" graphic. which I guess would appear on every website that has jquery loaded from google. Which is a ton of sites.
  • krapp 13y ago
    From what I can tell (which is not much), it searches the document for a script tag calling jQuery from Google's CDN and then tries to load its own payload by AJAX. n(z) makes the ajax call (I think z is the url) (with a pretty nifty looking stack of functions inside an array), r(y,B) builds html elements (where y is the tag name and B is a text node inside the tag, and any subsequent arguments are mapped as tag attributes), and that's as far as I got until it gave me got a headache and decided life was too short.