Google maps & SSL

RLJB

We have maps working extensively on our Dev server (no SSL cert for https) BUT when we publish to our dev server/s the maps do not appear. The only difference we can guess at is that our prod servers (we have 3) all have SSL certs.

There is:

no errors in log
nothing displayed on form it's just blank
nothing displayed on a presentation it's just blank as well

Can anyone confirm if google maps works with SSL?

Tks

Rennur

Is it the same on all browsers?

Rennur

Found these articles

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1201274/google-maps-over-https

Maps APIs over SSL now available to all
http://googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.com.au/2011/03/maps-apis-over-ssl-now-available-to-all.html

Could it be an internal issue with the way Google Maps are integrated with AwareIM?

RLJB

Rennur - that was an interesting suggestion!

Surprisingly it works on IE (v11)... but doesn't work on:

Chrome
Firefox

Support - any ideas to solve this?

RLJB

Ok, the issue is because AwareIM is calling the Google map from a non secure url and therefore the content is not secure and "good" browsers will not display the map. EG Google Chrome will put a shield in the top right to notify you of insecure content on the page, but allow you to click it and load the content.

Support - ideally Aware should always use the secure content (use the https
googel url) as in the reverse it will not through an error (eg having secure content in a non secure page) - maybe something for the 'to do' on the next release?

pbrad

I also concur that it would be great if the built in google maps feature could call https rather than http. It is unusable otherwise for most people.

Thanks,
Pete

ab042

Any work around that we can modify one of the awareIM files so that it always uses a secure connection?

It is unusable in a production system the way it is.

SUPPORT: Please advise

pbrad

I'm wondering if it might be:

initGoogleMaps: function ()
{
// load the appropriate file - the call back indicates a function that will fire the event
var fileName = "http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?sensor=false&callback=gm_loaded";
if (this.isDynamicFileLoaded (fileName))

in awareApp.js

Cheers,
Pete

hpl123

pbrad wrote
I'm wondering if it might be:

initGoogleMaps: function ()
{
// load the appropriate file - the call back indicates a function that will fire the event
var fileName = "http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?sensor=false&callback=gm_loaded";
if (this.isDynamicFileLoaded (fileName))

in awareApp.js

Cheers,
Pete

Sounds like it could be. There are also some code in the aware_full.js and aware.js. Search for "google".

pbrad

Hi,
I'm not sure whether you need to make the change in all of the js files or only one but I can confirm that if you change it in all three, Google maps works in an https environment and does not break the ssl lock.

Support, would it be possible to make this change permanently in the relevant js files so that we don't have to make the change on each new version?

Thanks,
Pete

pbrad

Sorry, I guess that I should have clarified for users. The required change is to change the url from http://... to https://...

Cheers,
Pete

Rennur

I assume changing this would not have any effect on the NON HTTPS environment

pbrad

That is correct.
Pete