It looks like the Google developers may have done something. They all started suddenly working again.
On Dec 23, 8:10 am, Ray <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Yuvi, > > 1. Refreshing doesn't help. The problem is consistent. > > 2. All of the gadgets can be accessed in the browser 100% of the time. > > 3. Some of the gadgets are on a different host, although they all > share the same server. > > I haven't changed anything here regarding the gadgets for several > months. They just suddenly stopped working yesterday morning. > > On Dec 23, 5:30 am, yuvi <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > My gadgets are hosted on Google Apps Engine (GAE) and every now and > > again > > I experience similar problem. Google App Engine "turn off" my app, by > > the time GAE loaded my app, igoogle already gives an error ..... not > > a problem for me at the moment. > > > Questions: > > 1. when you refresh igoogle few time do you get the gadget in the > > end ? > > 2. when a gadget is not shown can you access the gadget xml > > directly ? > > 3. I have looked into your gadgets list and they don't seems to share > > the same host, is that so ? > > > On Dec 23, 2:03 am, Ray <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi Rob. Thanks for your reply. The server is very fast so that > > > shouldn't be the problem, especially since it's always the same group > > > of gadgets that don't work, and the same group that always do. They > > > are all coming from the same server. > > > > The server logs don't show any problems. > > > > On Dec 22, 6:53 pm, Rob Russell <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I've passed along your concern to the developers but the most common > > > > cause > > > > for this is a timeout when Google servers are trying to retrieve your > > > > gadget > > > > xml spec. > > > > > Your server may respond fast enough to see the gadget spec in a browser > > > > but > > > > could still be too slow when the file is requested by Google. Server > > > > load > > > > varies by time of day and location, so you may find that your server is > > > > fast > > > > where you're located but takes longer to reply to requests from Google > > > > servers. Have a look in your logs at the requests to ensure that your > > > > server > > > > actually is responding as you expect. There are also monitoring services > > > > (some free and some paid) that you can use to check your servers from > > > > multiple locations at different times of day. > > > > > hth, > > > > Rob Russell > > > > Google Developer Relations > > > > > On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Ray <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Several gadgets have stopped working suddenly. All have been in place > > > > > for months or years. > > > > > > An example one is > > > > >http://links.christiansunite.com/quiz_gadget.xml > > > > > > When trying to load the gadget in iGoogle it reports: > > > > > Unable to retrieve:http://links.christiansunite.com/quiz_gadget.xml > > > > > > Gadget checker reports: > > > > > HTTP Error: 504 Gateway Timeout > > > > > > I have about 7 other gadgets that work fine, and 5 that are reporting > > > > > a similar error. > > > > > > Here's my list of gadgets: > > > > > >http://www.google.com/ig/directory?type=authors&itemstype=gadgets&url... > > > > > > The ones with blank or generic images have stopped working. > > > > > > -- > > > > > 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]<Google-Gadgets-API%2Bunsubs > > > > > [email protected]> > > > > > . > > > > > For more options, visit this group at > > > > >http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Gadgets-API?hl=en. -- 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.
