Google Maps SSL Error utilizing drupal_http_query

Thanks for working on this! Is this issue still relevant? I tried to test it on a site with SSL enabled and the request to maps.googleapis.com from geocoder_google was successfull without any errors.

All patches here (#2, #5, #6) are doing this:

+    CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST => FALSE,
+    CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER => FALSE

This will effectively disable protection against various attacks like man-in-the-middle and allows the communication to be insecure (see: https://curl.se/libcurl/c/CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER.html). I think it is not a good idea to commit a change like this.

The Error opening socket message could mean that the PHP has no openSSL support, has outdated CA certificates, or similar. If this is the case, I recommend to use this contrib module: https://www.drupal.org/project/alt_http_client → to disable the SSL verification for the specific host. But introducing this change for all Geocoder users is not possible.

I do not think we can do more here, unless there will be a clear steps to reproduce the problem on 7.x-1.7 and on server with openSSL correctly working. The communication to Google API must be over SSL, so closing as Works as designed. Feel free to reopen this in case there will be some more information. Thanks!