What sort of gadget are you developing? A URL type gadget? You could obtain the URL of the gadgets iframe (e.g. something like 224.gmodules.com) and try allowing access only from there. Or set up a test page which logs IPs / hostnames to see if there are other IPs you would need to add to your whitelist.
On Sep 16, 5:18 pm, Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the response. It is more of an issue of the admins do not > want to allow outside traffic to the web servers in general. They are > willing to make an exception for Google strictly for gadget testing if > I am able to locate the ip range. The concern is more for the > infrastructure then access to the test gadget itself. > > On Sep 16, 11:01 am, "Bonstio (Guru)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I would recommend security by obscurity. Give your gadget XML an > > absurd URL featuring a random alphanumeric sequence. You could set up > > a robots.txt to indicate that it should not be indexed, and don't link > > to it from any other pages. I think this would be good enough in most > > cases. Is that any help? > > > On Sep 16, 3:06 pm, Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Does anyone know if Google uses a specific IP/IP Range to parse the > > > gadget XML? We want to setup a testing environment that is only > > > accessible to Google. > > > > Obviously people would be able access the gadget via iGoogle, we just > > > want to make sure people are not accessing the testing area directly. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iGoogle Developer Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Gadgets-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
