Ok today requests to my proxy stopped giving me an answer. The proxy works fine but not from iGoogle.
Someone is really trying to stop this. Dan. Is this in fact google who is trying to stop us requesting stock quotes from Yahoo ? Regards Christian On Oct 19, 11:39 pm, Checksum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > I am experiencing the same problem as Uday. > It seems like communication with yahoo finance servers has been > blocked. > Its possible to "workaround" this problem by making a proxy on a third > party server. So from my point of view it seems like either Yahoo or > Google has blocked communication with the other part. I have talked > with my contact at Yahoo and he told me that their engineers has not > set up any blocks. > > The "blocked" url in question > is:http://download.finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=GOOG&f=e1snp2 > > I have made a little test gadget for anyone > interestedhttp://cnybroe.googlepages.com/yftest.xml > The function fnParseStockData should be called, but it is never > happening, because no answer is received. > > Regards > Christian > > On Oct 19, 6:48 pm, Uday <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Dan, > > > I saw your post in the other discussion about using a nocache=1 while > > loading the gadget. This doesnt seem to work for inlined gadgets. Do > > you have any such workarounds for my(inlined) gadget? > > > Appreciate your help.. > > > Thanks > > -Uday > > > On Oct 19, 9:07 am, Uday <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Dan (or any other googlers), > > > > Can you guys tell me why I am not able to uncache my > > > gadgethttp://udaysasi.googlepages.com/quickStockWatch.xml > > > > I am trying to debug something and I can't see my changes, even after > > > 1 day.. I usually use the Developer gadget to force caching.. But, > > > that doesn't seem to help. > > > > Just to mention again - This is an inlined gadget, and I hope it > > > shouldn't make any difference. > > > > Thanks > > > -Uday > > > > On Oct 18, 8:47 am, Uday <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Dan, > > > > > I created a non-inlined gadget for testing purposes and here is what I > > > > identified - When I try to call Yahoo Finance servers, I see that I > > > > get the data back from the Yahoo server but the _IG_Callback doesn't > > > > get called to paint that content on the page. I change the URL(by > > > > calling a proxy URL) and it works fine.. > > > > > Can you throw some light on this? > > > > > Thanks > > > > -Uday > > > > > On Oct 18, 8:24 am, Uday <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > First of all, Here is my gadget URL > > > > > :http://udaysasi.googlepages.com/quickStockWatch.xml > > > > > It has been an inlined gadget since it was developed. > > > > > > My gadget stopped working from 10/16 (without any changes from my end) > > > > > and I was trying to see what changes caused this issue. Co- > > > > > incidentally it was approximately when Google released the new layout. > > > > > I am not sure if it is related to that.. I am now trying to debug this > > > > > issue by adding some logs etc, but the latest version of the gadget > > > > > doesn't load. I still see a cached version. I have the Developer > > > > > gadget but the "Cached" checkbox doesnt seem to take effect. This is a > > > > > finance module that pulls data from Yahoo! Finance servers. Assuming > > > > > that the problem was due to the amount of traffic as it happened in > > > > > March 2008 which can be seen in this thread > > > > > [[[http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Gadgets-API/browse_thread/threa... > > > > > ]]] I was trying to debug this by hitting a proxy URL instead of > > > > > directly hitting the Yahoo servers, I am just trying to isolate where > > > > > the problem is. Now, Due to this caching issue, I am not able to > > > > > identify the root cause. I know there is already a thread on Caching > > > > > issue but I opened this discussion to discuss about my Finance module, > > > > > once this caching hurdle is overcome. > > > > > > Dan, any thoughts on this? > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > -Uday- Hide quoted text - > > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
