Thanks Jerome. That was likely the problem... by the time you had answered it had cleared itself up.
Apologies on the direct email... thought I had replied to the thread, not the author. :) Best, -Pete On Apr 17, 4:16 pm, Jerome Mouton <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Pete, > > Please use the group for your questions. I am replying with the group > included. > > My guess regarding your error parsing module spec error is because of a > short outage at your host which lead to the cache at Google to have stored > temporarily some invalid data. > > If the problem does not go away quickly, please post another message here, > and Dan will sure have a look on Monday if not earlier. > > Jerome > > On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 8:59 PM, Sneakypete <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Jerome: > > > 6 month later follow-on... > > > I have a gadget that has been working for over a year, but now (as of > > today) is getting the dreaded: > > > Error parsing module spec: > > Not a properly formatted file > > missing xml header > > > The XML can be found here: > > >http://www.repatoo.com/apps/reputationManager/google/repatoo.xml > > > Any thoughts? > > > TIA > > > On Nov 5 2008, 11:57 am, "Jerome (Guru)" <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > Hi Chipou, > > > > This URL can not work, as this is not pointing to your XML file, but > > > to a download page from Mediafire. An URL like the following would be > > > what you need to use, but this will not work either, as URLs like this > > > one are generated for each request on the fly by Mediafire: > >http://download111.mediafire.com/mddw1mlymwvg/m52adylz542/PS3GEN.xml > > > If you get such an URL, it will most likely be tied to your IP > > > address, and when gmodules.com try to fetch, it will get an error, not > > > your gadget. > > > > Short answer: I don't think you can use Mediafire for hosting your > > > gadget. > > > Suggestion: For such a simple XML spec, just use the Google Gadget > > > Editor. There is a built-in feature to save and publish your gadget: > >http://code.google.com/apis/gadgets/docs/legacy/gs.html > > > > Or look at Google Code with SVN but this would be overkill in this > > > specific case. > > > > Jerome > > > > On Nov 5, 2:20 pm, Chipou <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > >http://www.mediafire.com/?m52adylz542 > > > > > Here the link to download. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
