Google's CDN hosted jQuery 1.5 is down (Fixed after 40 min)

http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.5/jquery.min.js

by akamaka • 15 years ago

12 28 15 years ago

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nbpoole4• 15 years ago

For reference, these exist:

http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.5.0/jquery.min...

http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.5.1/jquery.min...

http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4/jquery.min.j... (loads 1.4.4)

http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.5/jquery.js (the non-minified version of the link that's down. version is 1.5.2)

My guess would be something went wrong in rolling out v1.5.2 (since the minified version is 404ing but the regular version isn't). Of course, shouldn't your application be specifying a specific version of jQuery anyway, so that you control when the version changes?

Edit: Apparently 1.5.1 is still the latest release, according to the docs (http://code.google.com/apis/libraries/devguide.html#jquery)

Edit 2: The non-minified version still works, and it's returning 1.5.2.

akamaka3• 15 years ago

Ah, so perhaps nobody should have been pointing to 1.5 (vs. 1.5.0) to begin with?

Edit: The docs mention only these specific version numbers: 1.2.3, 1.2.6, 1.3.0, 1.3.1, 1.3.2, 1.4.0, 1.4.1, 1.4.2, 1.4.3, 1.4.4, 1.5.0, 1.5.1

nbpoole4• 15 years ago

Well, yes and no. Google does specifically allow that behavior as part of their versioning policy (http://code.google.com/apis/libraries/devguide.html#versioni...). However, in a production environment, you really shouldn't be automatically loading the latest release of jQuery; what happens if there's a regression that affects your application's performance?

Regardless, I don't think that URL should be down.

bmelton2• 15 years ago

Consider it anecdotal, but I've personally never been burned on any jQuery minor point releases. Going from 1.3 to 1.4 and 1.5 has always been cause to revisit my code, but generally, minor point releases have always improved things for me.

rwolf• 15 years ago

It works now.

nbpoole4• 15 years ago

Hurray!

dewitt• 15 years ago

Hi,

Yes, it's being fixed and the update is being pushed out as we speak. (It should already be back up for some.)

Basically, we broke the alias from 1.5 to the latest version when pushing out 1.5.2. We caught it quickly, but not fast enough.

These URLs should all work now:

http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.5/jquery.min.j...

http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.5.0/jquery.min...

http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.5.1/jquery.min...

And now:

http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.5.2/jquery.min...

Very sorry about the downtime.

-DeWitt

yesimahuman• 15 years ago

It's nice to know that you guys make mistakes too. Thanks.

adamdecaf• 15 years ago

It would be really cool to see how many websites failed because of this. Mashing up the amount of caching that actually goes on would be a cool metric to further improve CDN's with, anyone agree?

rhizome• 15 years ago

This is why I host my own. Cost of doing business.

notahacker• 15 years ago

Isn't using Google CDN (quite possibly cached by user) with a fallback to a local copy the best of both worlds?

scotth• 15 years ago

Why not fallback? That way you may get caching for first time users.

See HTML5 Boilerplate for an example of this.

blhack3• 15 years ago

How does it make sense for google to pay for the hosting for this stuff?

Or google charts...I'm building a product that uses this pretty heavily right now, but it seems too good to be true. Generating those graphs for me is really nice, but the bandwidth and CPU cycles that I'm using aren't free (for google), what's their upside?

Cool, google, and thanks, but how does this make financial sense for you?

petervandijck• 15 years ago

Not everything a company does has to bring in revenue (make financial sense).

blhack3• 15 years ago

But how do they justify this to their shareholders?

This is literally the type of stuff I daydream about... "Here, I've got all this computing infrastructure, isn't it cool? Tell you what, use it for free!"

That's awesome. I guess I was kindof asking if I was missing the point or something. Are there really people at google who are saying "Listen, boss, I'm going to need $money to build google font library. I'm going to need $foo engineers, and $bar resources, but we should do this because it would be fun!"

And their boss goes "huh, cool! Yeah, here is some money!"

Nogwater• 15 years ago

It makes it easier for people to build web applications instead of Windows applications. If people build web apps, then Google has a shot at making some money off of it if the designer wants to monetize with ads or google checkout.

akamaka3• 15 years ago

Yes, Google's business is on the web, and they've made it their mission to make the web as fast as possible.

If the web doesn't speed up, more users will move to closed ecosystems like the iPhone App Store.

Other projects are motivated by this are Google Chrome (and the open source around it) and Google Page Speed, for example.

qq662• 15 years ago

Google Charts gives Google all your chart data in textual form -- if you generated chart images with another app they wouldn't be able to crawl it.

blhack3• 15 years ago

It says pretty specifically that they don't store or index the data in the google charts terms of service.

Udo• 15 years ago

My question would rather be "how does it make sense to rely on an outside source for this stuff?". Really, website developers are introducing another, completely unnecessary point of failure if they hotlink an external jQuery version.

It's not such a huge file either, I can't imagine what benefits people think this has. Is it so the first page loads a fraction of a second faster (maybe)?

Google's CDN hosted jQuery 1.5 is down (Fixed after 40 min)

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