Hi everyone, I don't know of any intent to block data from Yahoo's Finance servers, but I will investigate the problem. My guess is that something else is at play here.
Best, Dan On Oct 20, 4:40 am, Checksum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok today requests to my proxy stopped giving me an answer. The proxy > works fine but not from iGoogle. > > Someone is really trying to stop this. > > Dan. Is this in fact google who is trying to stop us requesting stock > quotes from Yahoo ? > > Regards > Christian > > On Oct 19, 11:39 pm, Checksum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi > > I am experiencing the same problem as Uday. > > It seems like communication with yahoo finance servers has been > > blocked. > > Its possible to "workaround" this problem by making a proxy on a third > > party server. So from my point of view it seems like either Yahoo or > > Google has blocked communication with the other part. I have talked > > with my contact at Yahoo and he told me that their engineers has not > > set up any blocks. > > > The "blocked" url in question > > is:http://download.finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=GOOG&f=e1snp2 > > > I have made a little test gadget for anyone > > interestedhttp://cnybroe.googlepages.com/yftest.xml > > The function fnParseStockData should be called, but it is never > > happening, because no answer is received. > > > Regards > > Christian > > > On Oct 19, 6:48 pm, Uday <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Dan, > > > > I saw your post in the other discussion about using a nocache=1 while > > > loading the gadget. This doesnt seem to work for inlined gadgets. Do > > > you have any such workarounds for my(inlined) gadget? > > > > Appreciate your help.. > > > > Thanks > > > -Uday > > > > On Oct 19, 9:07 am, Uday <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Dan (or any other googlers), > > > > > Can you guys tell me why I am not able to uncache my > > > > gadgethttp://udaysasi.googlepages.com/quickStockWatch.xml > > > > > I am trying to debug something and I can't see my changes, even after > > > > 1 day.. I usually use the Developer gadget to force caching.. But, > > > > that doesn't seem to help. > > > > > Just to mention again - This is an inlined gadget, and I hope it > > > > shouldn't make any difference. > > > > > Thanks > > > > -Uday > > > > > On Oct 18, 8:47 am, Uday <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Dan, > > > > > > I created a non-inlined gadget for testing purposes and here is what I > > > > > identified - When I try to call Yahoo Finance servers, I see that I > > > > > get the data back from the Yahoo server but the _IG_Callback doesn't > > > > > get called to paint that content on the page. I change the URL(by > > > > > calling a proxy URL) and it works fine.. > > > > > > Can you throw some light on this? > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > -Uday > > > > > > On Oct 18, 8:24 am, Uday <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > First of all, Here is my gadget URL > > > > > > :http://udaysasi.googlepages.com/quickStockWatch.xml > > > > > > It has been an inlined gadget since it was developed. > > > > > > > My gadget stopped working from 10/16 (without any changes from my > > > > > > end) > > > > > > and I was trying to see what changes caused this issue. Co- > > > > > > incidentally it was approximately when Google released the new > > > > > > layout. > > > > > > I am not sure if it is related to that.. I am now trying to debug > > > > > > this > > > > > > issue by adding some logs etc, but the latest version of the gadget > > > > > > doesn't load. I still see a cached version. I have the Developer > > > > > > gadget but the "Cached" checkbox doesnt seem to take effect. This > > > > > > is a > > > > > > finance module that pulls data from Yahoo! Finance servers. Assuming > > > > > > that the problem was due to the amount of traffic as it happened in > > > > > > March 2008 which can be seen in this thread > > > > > > [[[http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Gadgets-API/browse_thread/threa... > > > > > > ]]] I was trying to debug this by hitting a proxy URL instead of > > > > > > directly hitting the Yahoo servers, I am just trying to isolate > > > > > > where > > > > > > the problem is. Now, Due to this caching issue, I am not able to > > > > > > identify the root cause. I know there is already a thread on Caching > > > > > > issue but I opened this discussion to discuss about my Finance > > > > > > module, > > > > > > once this caching hurdle is overcome. > > > > > > > Dan, any thoughts on this? > > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > -Uday- Hide quoted text - > > > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
