Thanks for that analysis. I'll see if we can make our installer parser less strict on mime-types.
- pamela On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 2:31 AM, Romain Vallet <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for your reply. > > I made some tests, you were right about the mime types, they make a > difference. > > Generic server (free shared hosting): > http://romanito.ovh.org/wave/full-size-image/manifest.xml > Served as application/xml - Does not work. > > Google Code Project Hosting: > http://romanito.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/wave/gadgets/full-size-image/manifest.xml > Served as text/plain - Does not work. > > GGE: > http://hosting.gmodules.com/ig/gadgets/file/115796239262785573913/full-size-image-manifest.xml > Served as text/xml - Works. > > So text/plain does not work. Also it would be a good idea to allow > application/xml files to be processed, as some servers seem to handle > XML files that way. > > Thanks, > Romain. > > On Dec 11, 1:49 am, "pamela (Google Employee)" <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Hi Romain - >> >> Google Sites is particular in regards to how files are served. XML files >> aren't directly served; they're served as attachments; and that isn't >> compatible with our fetcher. You can use Google Code Project Hosting to >> store the files in the SVN repositories; that's where we store our >> installers. You should also be able to use your own server, as long as it's >> publicly available. For those 2 techniques, please paste the URLs here so we >> can see if there's a problem on our side. >> >> Any host that serves the file as text/plain or text/xml should work. >> >> - pamela >> >> On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 3:55 AM, Romain Vallet >> <[email protected]>wrote: >> >> >> >> > Hi, >> >> > I wrote a gadget and I'm trying to share it with my friends with an >> > extension installer. I installed the "Extension Installer" extension >> > in wave and tried to use it with my manifest file, but it didn't work. >> > Error message: "Aw snap! There was a problem loading this extension". >> > The manifest file was pretty simple so I was quite confident about its >> > correctness. >> >> > At first my xml and image files where hosted on a Google Sites page. >> > After trying different hosts, I had the installer work by hosting the >> > files through GGE. >> >> > I tried Google Sites, Google Code SVN and a "generic" host (personal >> > page on ovh.org), none of them worked. >> >> > Only the manifest file seems to be affected. For example, if I put the >> > other files on SVN and the manifest file on GGE, everything works >> > fine. >> >> > Has anyone else encountered this issue? >> >> > -- >> >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> > "Google Wave API" group. >> > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> > [email protected]<google-wave-api%2Bunsubscribe@ >> > googlegroups.com> >> > . >> > For more options, visit this group at >> >http://groups.google.com/group/google-wave-api?hl=en. > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google Wave API" 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-wave-api?hl=en. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Wave API" 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-wave-api?hl=en.
