I've confirmed this is currently the case. You can file an issue at
http://code.google.com/p/igoogle-developers/issues/entry (copying & pasting
your post is fine). I've passed it along to the rest of the team for
feedback.

Thanks,
Rob Russell
Google Developer Relations


On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 3:08 AM, Itai <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks,
>
> The gadget xml is accessible from outside our LAN.
> In fact, if I go to my iGoogle page and add the gadget "manually"
> using the "add feed or gadget" and then entering the URL of the xml -
> it works fine.
>
> But when I try to use the "add button" api it fails - i notice the
> request from Google servers reaches our server but for some reason the
> process fails, with the message "The gadget you are looking for is not
> valid."
>
> I tried this with a trivial "hello world" gadget xml.
>
> Itai.
>
> On Jun 29, 8:57 pm, Thangaraju Ramasamy <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > If the gadget XML is not accessible outside your LAN (not public ally
> > accessible), then iGoogle doesn't load the gadget. Please make sure that
> > your gadget is publically accessible.
> >
> > If you really want to test the gadget within localhost/intranet, you can
> try
> > OSDE (http://code.google.com/p/opensocial-development-environment/)
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Regards,
> > Thangaraju Ramasamy
> > Senior Software Engineer
> > Mob : +91-96543 68685
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 21:43, Itai <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > This used to work in the past, but now, if the gadget XML is sourced
> > > from port 8080, the gadget will not load when using the add gadget
> > > button or by entering the URL in the browser:
> >
> > >http://fusion.google.com/add?source=atgs&moduleurl=http%3A//
> > > <myhost>:8080/apps/services/test.xml
> >
> > > Google returns the following message:
> > > "The gadget you are looking for is not valid."
> >
> > > It works fine if i add it directly from iGoogle using the "add feed or
> > > gadget" form.
> >
> > > Is this a known bug? is there a workaround for it?
> >
> > > Many thanks,
> > > Itai
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