Map layer entities being forced to https

Hi,

This module does not manipulate the input urls. Are you sure you are not getting mixed content errors in your browser?

Most browsers will prevent loading content from HTTP resources when on a HTTPS site.

Hi,

Thanks for the response. Yes, this is definitely the problem. The message is

temp:1 Mixed Content: The page at 'https://mywebsite/temp' was loaded over HTTPS, but requested an insecure element 'http://mygeoserverurl:8080/geoserver/speciesmaps/wms?service=WMS&request=GetMap&layers=...etc'. This request was automatically upgraded to HTTPS.

So then it is a browser issue and not a module issue. I'm not sure how to get round this. I can't upgrade the geoserver to https. Is there a way to directly load a shapefile in leaflet layers?

Thanks.

I'm not sure. You will get better answers about Leaflet in some of the places mentioned at the bottom of https://leafletjs.com/.

But I guess the simplest would be to create a proxy webservice that is served with HTTPS and fetches data from mygeoserverurl:8080.

Thanks andeersg for your response. I'm looking into that.

This issue can be marked closed, I suppose, since it's not really a problem with the module itself.

Thank you, hope you find a solution for your problem :)

In case it helps someone, this is what we did to get around the mixed content problem (of having the site on https and the geoserver on http):

1. In Map Layers, point the URL template to a local php file e.g.https://mysite-url/tile.php
2. In the php file, have this code:

<?php

  $sourceURL = 'http://mygeoserverrul:8080/geoserver/foldername/wms';
  $newURL = $sourceURL.'?'. http_build_query($_REQUEST);
 
  if (!file_exists("./tiles")) {
    mkdir("./tiles");
  }

  $fileLocation = "./tiles/".md5($newURL).".png";
  if (!file_exists($fileLocation)) {
     $curl = curl_init();
     curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $newURL);
     curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
     curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
     $imageData = curl_exec($curl);

     curl_close($curl);
     file_put_contents($fileLocation, $imageData);
     
  }
  header("Content-type: ".mime_content_type($fileLocation));
  echo file_get_contents($fileLocation);
  die();

As long as you don't have commas or special characters in the geoserver filename, this works perfectly (for my use case, at least!).