[Devel] Yes! We can use Google Maps over SSL now!

[Asheesh Laroia]

Okay, so here's the facts:

1. If you go to https://openhatch.org/people/ , you get an SSL warning 
in some web browsers because we include the Google Maps JavaScript over 
non-encrypted HTTP. (Since you're using the secure, HTTPS verion of the 
openhatch site, this causes a warning.)

2. As of last week, the only way for us to get the Google Maps API over 
SSL was to pay Google ten thousand dollars.

3. As of this week, Google announced SSL availability for the Google Maps 
API.

See: 
http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2011/03/improving-security-of-google-apis-with.html

4. It should be reasonably easy to adjust the OpenHatch code to use Google 
Maps over SSL.

These pages need changing:

* mysite/account/templates/account/set_location.html
* mysite/profile/templates/profile/search_people.html

I think that if we use SSL for all visitors, whether or not they are 
accessing OpenHatch over SSL, that would be fine.

5. First person to submit a patch to this earns my everlasting love. After 
you update the source code, make sure to try it locally on your own 
machine, and make sure that the map still works.

(6. Yes, I do know the map is still slow.)

(7. This is tracked in https://openhatch.org/bugs/issue213 and 
https://openhatch.org/bugs/issue233 )

-- Asheesh.

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