Hi there, Going back to the original topic of this thread, I think some fetchers at Google have gone mad for a few weeks now. I've noticed a huge increase of traffic on some of my gadget xml file over the past month. I did not take the time to research until now, and as far as I can tell, I am getting the same xml file fetched over and over again, sometimes 4 seconds apart, some other times 2 minutes apart. The HTTP GET is successful (200) so there is no reason for that to happen.
The fetcher gone mad signs its requests with "Google OpenSocial agent (http://www.google.com/feedfetcher.html)". For October 1st to October 12th, I had for instance 65,000 fetches of one single xml file (fetched about every 15 seconds). 60,000 of these queries came from the mad fetcher, leaving 5,000 from legit fetchers (including "FeedFetcher-Google; (+http://www.google.com/feedfetcher.html)"). I am preparing some data to share with Google for them to investigate. My guess is that your gadget has been of the liking of the mad fetcher as well... and you are being hit pretty hard by massive useless queries. I agree with the recommendations of others that it would be in your best interest to move your gadget hosting on Code or Gmodules, but I would assume that Code or Gmodules would not give unlimited bandwidth either, and in a situation as the one we are facing now, your gadget could be rendered unavailable as well. Jerome On Oct 8, 11:16 pm, abarton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To my surprise when I checked my email it was stuffed with mad and > concerned emails, I guess I exceeded the bandwidth on Google page . > Any way requested aliases from googlepages to hosting.gmodules.com. > herehttp://code.google.com/p/igoogle-legacy/issues/detail?id=197 > Im hoping and pleading it does not take to long. > > My question for the fourm is does > _IG_GetImageUrl cache a image ? > Trying to figure out why my gadgets would use to much bandwidth. > > http://hosting.gmodules.com/ig/gadgets/file/117336448282898488901/Gad... > any suggestions would help. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
