[Koha-devel] GoogleIndicTransliteration must die?

[Indranil Das Gupta]

Hi all,

Koha uses the deprecated (in 2011) Google Indic Transliterate v1 API
to power the GoogleIndicTransliterate syspref.

It seems internally the API calls to Googe Inputtools service over
http! So again we are back in MIXED CONTENT mess and nothing much we
can do about it, except move out of this API.

transliteration.I.js:formatted:11055 Mixed Content: The page at
'https://rksmvvlibrary.in/cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl?q=%E0%A6%B6%E0%A7%8D%E…E%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AA%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A6+'
was loaded over HTTPS, but requested an insecure script
'http://www.google.com/inputtools/request?text=shyama&ime=transliteration_en…n&num=5&cp=0&cs=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&app=jsapi&uv&cb=_callbacks_._0isi0aei6'.
This request has been blocked; the content must be served over
HTTPS.Q.dh @ transliteration.I.js:formatted:11055Ww @
transliteration.I.js:formatted:4578Q.Ad @
transliteration.I.js:formatted:10982(anonymous function) @
transliteration.I.js:formatted:11237(anonymous function) @
transliteration.I.js:formatted:6670(anonymous function) @
transliteration.I.js:formatted:6059nq @
transliteration.I.js:formatted:2266(anonymous function) @
transliteration.I.js:formatted:6232a @
transliteration.I.js:formatted:6074
transliteration.I.js:formatted:10923 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read
property '0' of nullQ.Bh @ transliteration.I.js:formatted:10923Q.Mi @
transliteration.I.js:formatted:10862Mt.(anonymous function).j @
transliteration.I.js:formatted:8324(anonymous function) @
transliteration.I.js:formatted:3591


I saw this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/35238710/deprecated-google-api-will-not-work-from-page-served-over-https
and this https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/google-ajax-search-api/9TqbCXqQTSA

Looks like its time to bid goodbye to GoogleIndicTransliteration syspref :-(

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