Hi Rob,

Just checking if you have any update/answer to my questions on the
issue?

Thanks
-Uday


On Oct 1, 4:58 pm, Uday <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Rob,
>
> Thank you for your quick response, but I see that the aliasing doesn't
> work fine as I thought it was all along.. Here is why I think so..
>
> For your understanding, I put up a sample comparison page that
> contains embedded gadgets from both the original url and the new one.
> Here is the sample page :http://www.freewebs.com/udaysasi/comparison.html
>
> The URL A in the page was used when Google Pages was on. When the
> Google Pages service was shut down, I moved my gadget to the Google
> Code (URL B) and filed an aliasing request for A to B. By then, my
> gadget was embedded on a lot of sites, (I see about 3 million page
> views every month on Google Analytics).. Most of them have the old URL
> A.
>
> Not until recently did I notice that those webpages are serving very
> old version of the gadget, and hence changes I made over the past year
> or so never reached those users.
>
> So, My question is - Is this expected behavior? In other words,
> Whenever I make changes to the gadget, should I re-file the aliasing
> request?
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.
>
> -Uday
>
> On Sep 27, 6:31 pm, Rob Russell <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hi Uday,
> > Caching time can vary by the area that your users are in since the gadget
> > will be sent from servers near them. The cache does respect HTTP caching
> > headers so setting them appropriately can help you get updates out at the
> > right time.
>
> > In the case of a and b the url chosen shouldn't matter for cache purposes.
>
> > hth,
> > Rob Russell
> > Google Developer Relations
>
> > On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Uday <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Hi Rob,
>
> > > If I make changes to a gadget and re-upload(I see the changes when I
> > > uncheck the Cached checkbox in the developer gadget), how long will it
> > > take for the changes to show up in the following scenarios?
>
> > > (a) iGoogle page
> > > (b) webpages that include this gadget
>
> > > In case (b) above, if there was an alias defined for an old URL that
> > > changed to the new one, does it matter in terms of cache refresh if
> > > one url is used Vs the other in the webpage?
>
> > > Thanks in advance
>
> > > -Uday
>
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