René and Luciano, can you please provide the URL of your applications?
We're looking into various reports of caching headaches right now.
Thanks!

- Jason

On Jun 18, 9:44 pm, "René Tapia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Jason,
>
> I have no max-age value in my headers. However, my app's xml has not been
> refreshed since it was added to the sandbox two days ago.
>
> Here are the headers from my server as returned by fiddler:
>
> HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 04:13:02 GMT
> Server: Apache/2.2.6 (Fedora)
> Last-Modified: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:47:36 GMT
> ETag: "16999be-d4a6-b1342e00"
> Accept-Ranges: bytes
> Content-Length: 54438
> Connection: close
> Content-Type: text/xml
>
> So I am still no sure as to what is required to have my app's xml refreshed.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Best regards,
> Rene
>
> 2008/6/18 Jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>
>
> > I apologize for all of the confusion. The orkut developer guide needs
> > a small update: orkut does not refresh its cache at a fixed interval.
> > Instead, it honors the max-age value in the Cache-Control header that
> > is returned by the server hosting the application. This could be
> > several hours or even several days. If no max-age value is set, orkut
> > should refresh the cache every five minutes or so. Unfortunately,
> > there is no way to flush an application's cache manually at this time.
>
> > Rajiv: how often do you see an older version of your application
> > appear after the cache has been refreshed? You mention "back and
> > forth," so I'm curious to know how frequent this occurrence is. It's
> > not necessarily uncommon for the cache to update in some regions of
> > the world before others, but once updated (and assuming you're not
> > using the bpc parameter), your spec should not be reverting. Can you
> > provide your application's URL?
>
> > - Jason
>
> > On Jun 17, 7:51 pm, "Luciano Ricardi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Yep, the problem happens again. And, sometimes, the problem that Rajiv
> > > describes happens too... :/
>
> > > When using the bpc, sometimes the Rajiv's problem happens... and without
> > > bpc... well... the content is from long time ago... :(
>
> > > On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 8:57 PM, Rajiv Renganathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > wrote:
>
> > > > Hello,
>
> > > > I am goin nuts over this caching thing :(
>
> > > > Sometime the new app xml picked immediately. Then after a few hours, I
> > > > start seeing the old version of the app! This happens back and forth.
>
> > > > Pls Google, explain how caching works or simple let developers refresh
> > the
> > > > cache when the app xml is changed.
>
> > > > I starred
> > > >http://code.google.com/p/opensocial-resources/issues/detail?id=42.
> > However
> > > > the problem here is not about adding bpc. It is much bigger in terms of
> > user
> > > > experience and hence the reliability of the app.
>
> > > > Hope something is done sooner.
>
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Rajiv
>
> > > > On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 6:42 AM, René Tapia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
>
> > > >> I am having the same issue.
>
> > > >> Docs say cache should refresh every hour:
> > > >>http://code.google.com/apis/orkut/docs/orkutdevguide.html#bpc
>
> > > >> However cache has not been updated since saving my last changes last
> > > >> night, and so my app currently only works in sandbox with bpc=1.
>
> > > >> 2008/6/17 Rohit Ghatol (Google) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > > >>> Hi Everyone,
> > > >>> Are you guys still facing this issue?
>
> > > >>> Thanks,
> > > >>> Rohit
>
> > > >>> On Jun 10, 4:51 pm, "Luciano Ricardi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > >>> > This is EXACTLY the problem. The user of the gadget will not insert
> > the
> > > >>> > bpc=1 on the url right? So, what can we do? The gadget is showing
> > > >>> always the
> > > >>> > same content on the wrong place!
>
> > > >>> > On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 2:01 AM, sunnydiv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
>
> > > >>> > > luciano
> > > >>> > > i have been facing a similar problem,
> > > >>> > > just use &bpc=1 while in sandbox
>
> > > >>> > > it works fine once approved, (updates cache every few hrs or so)
>
> > > >>> > > On Jun 10, 6:11 am, "Luciano Ricardi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > >>> > > > Hi all,
>
> > > >>> > > > We are a bit confused when using the cache mechanism of the
> > orkut
> > > >>> > > > implementation of Opensocial. Let me explain:
>
> > > >>> > > > We develop our application and we've published in a URL "A"
>
> > > >>> > > >http://urla.something.com/gadgetdir
>
> > > >>> > > > Inside our application, we have some PHP scripts. Inside one of
> > > >>> then, we
> > > >>> > > put
> > > >>> > > > one variable that points to the absolute url... (to load images
> > and
> > > >>> make
> > > >>> > > the
> > > >>> > > > MakeRequest() calls) like this:
>
> > > >>> > > > $url_base = "http://urla.something.com/gadgetdir";
>
> > > >>> > > > Ok...
>
> > > >>> > > > After we consider the gadget "stable" we put our application on
> > the
> > > >>> URL
> > > >>> > > "B"
>
> > > >>> > > >http://urlb.anotherthing.com/gadgetdir
>
> > > >>> > > > Well, we "forgot" to change the $url_base and, the gadget was
> > added
> > > >>> using
> > > >>> > > > the new url ("B") to publish, but pointing to the old URL
> > "A"...
>
> > > >>> > > > So, since then, we were UNABLE to test the gadget without
> > "bpc=1"
> > > >>> at the
> > > >>> > > end
> > > >>> > > > of URL, because the gadget added using URL "B" persist to bring
> > the
> > > >>> > > content
> > > >>> > > > of URL "A".
>
> > > >>> > > > Yes, we've fixed the $url_base and the problem persist for
> > days...
>
> > > >>> > > > My question is:
>
> > > >>> > > > Is this a bug? Since we've published the app, the sandbox cache
> > it
> > > >>> > > forever?
> > > >>> > > > Or, this is the intention of the Sandbox?
>
> > > >>> > > > Any comment is appreciated.
>
> > > >>> > > > Thanks!
>
> > > >>> > > > Luciano
>
> > > >>> > --
> > > >>> > Luciano
>
> > > > --
>
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > > DealSearchMaadi.com > Searching over 12 websites for shopping deals
> > across
> > > > India.
>
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> > > --
> > > Luciano
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