The owner of discountcodes.co.uk got in touch yesterday to let us know that the gadget wasn't working.  Fortunately, he'd already done most of the leg work in finding out the problem.

It turned out that Feedburner, who were hosting the feed that the gadget uses, had moved all their feeds from http://feeds.feedburner.com to a new url, http://feeds2.feedburner.com.  They did set up a forwarding header to direct browsers and feed readers from the old URL to the new URL and in certain situations a gadget's request to a URL would follow a forwarding header.  Unfortunately, this wasn't one of those situations; a request from a gadget will not follow a forwarding header to a different domain or subdomain, it just stops completely with no information on which URL it should have been directed to.

Without being able to access the feed, all of the discountcodes.co.uk gadgets already downloaded are rendered useless.  We've updated the gadget to use the new feed URL and we have a method on how we can make a request that will follow forwarding headers to other domains, it just requires a bit more testing before we start using it.

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