I have a gadget that fetches an external XML file every ~15 seconds using _IG_FetchXmlContent function. The third parameter of the function explicitly sets the cache refresh interval to 15 seconds: { refreshInterval: 15 }

It worked well till the last 3 days. During the last three days the gadget has been randomly getting old cached copies of external XML. Sometimes it gets copies, which are 1 hour old. Setting refreshInterval to zero doesn't help. I open the XML file in a browser window and see how it updates every 15 seconds when I manually refresh the page. But the gadget keeps receiving old copies.

I asked other gadget users whether they experience the same problems and got a positive answer.

I created a test gadget for reproducing the problem. The gadget is embedded in the following page:

http://www.iggamecenter.com/work/cachetest.html

The gadget's URL: http://www.iggamecenter.com/work/cachetest6.xml

The gadget fetches the following XML:

http://www.iggamecenter.com/xmldata/games/list0.xml

every 15 seconds and prints a value of "timestamp" attribute of "GameSessionList" tag. The XML file is updated by server every 15 seconds so the "timestamp" attribute should increment by 15 each 15 seconds. You can see it yourself by opening the mentioned XML file in a browser and refreshing it manually.

However, the gadget prints "timestamps", which values are randomly spread over the last hour. I.e. the "{refreshInterval:15}" doesn't work.