[Google-Gadgets-API] Re: Possible to host and access a gadget on a private network? - Ozberk - com.googlegroups.google-gadgets-api

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ppd	28 Jul 2008 14:33
Ozberk	28 Jul 2008 14:52
Dan (Google Employee)	30 Jul 2008 09:56

Subject:	[Google-Gadgets-API] Re: Possible to host and access a gadget on a private network?
From:	Ozberk (ozb...@semtr.com)
Date:	07/28/2008 02:52:31 PM
List:	com.googlegroups.google-gadgets-api

Hello,

Google gadgets are hosted and served through Google servers. So this means Google needs to access your server as well. When you host your XML file through a private server Google cannot access and serve it, thus your gadget wont work. There's no way you can make your gadget privae since all of them must be public. However there are some ways to avoid users by following some simple steps:

- Do not publish your gadget on content directory or any other gadget directories. - Make sure there are no links to your gadget. - Make sure your server does not provide a link to your gadget in a file list.

On 29 Temmuz, 00:34, ppd <pape...@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm new, so flame with kids' gloves. I tried searching the archives but couldn't determine the answer to my question:

Is it possible to host my google gadget on a private network (i.e. not accessible from the public Internet)? I created the gadget.xml, put it in the web directory of my server on the private network, but I can't add it from my iGoogle page nor from my google desktop app when trying from a computer inside that same private network.

I don't want anyone from the public Internet to be able to access the gadget, and the gadget fetches info from a server inside the private network via a NAT address (i.e. 192.168.xxx.xxx).

Can this be done? Or do all google gadgets need to be hosted on a publicly-available server?