3 messages in com.googlegroups.google-gadgets-apiRe: Issue with RSS feed
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arbster06 Feb 2007 02:59 
Dann (Google Employee)15 Feb 2007 10:27 
arbster27 Feb 2007 04:18 
Subject:Re: Issue with RSS feed
From:Dann (Google Employee) (d.@google.com)
Date:02/15/2007 10:27:35 AM
List:com.googlegroups.google-gadgets-api

Hey arb,

This looks like a caching issue, although seeing a cached entry way back from 2006-9-15 seems very old. There are ways to control the caching mechanism in the _IG_FetchContent() methods. You can set it to retrieve new content hourly, daily, monthly, etc.

Here's a previous post where I describe how to do this: http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Gadgets-API/browse_thread/thread/2afffc6c3d26341a/

Thanks!

Dann

On Feb 6, 2:59 am, "arbster" <alas@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm not sure where to post this, but wondered if anyone here can help me diagnose a problem so that I can work out where to go next. A user of my Tabbed RSS gadget contacted me to say that they were having a problem with a couple of their favourite feeds. Apparently they were working fine, but now are showing only out of date information. To make things slightly complex, the feeds are in Hebrew, but I can replicate what they're seeing when trying this one out:

http://www.themarker.com/tmc/content/xml/rss/hpfeed.jhtml

If I open the feed in IE, I can see the XML and the pubDate is today. However, when I use the same feed in my gadget, or anyone else's for that matter, I get content from 15 September 2006.

This appears to be an issue with Google's caching of the feed content - would others agree?

Thanks, arb.