[Koha-devel] GoogleIndicTransliteration must die?

[Jonathan Druart]

See bug 17137 - Omnibus: Always use SSL when referencing external sources

2016-08-30 23:36 GMT+01:00 Indranil Das Gupta <indradg at gmail.com>:
> 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 :-(
>
> --
> Indranil Das Gupta
> L2C2 Technologies
>
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