Monday, November 09, 2009

OGCE Gadget Container Supports HTTPS

Previous posts on the OGCE Gadget Container have used HTTP in the examples, but the latest version in SVN now supports HTTPS/SSL. This applies to all three parts of the system: the layout manager (the visible part), a slightly-patched Shindig gadget container, and locally served gadgets. Remote gadgets using HTTPS can also be embedded. HTTPS support builds out of the box in the usual way ("mvn clean install"). No additional configuration is required.

The big news here is that with our Gadget Container will support "HTML" style gadgets over HTTPS, not just "URL" style gadgets (that is, IFrames). This means you can build SSL-secured gadgets that can take full advantage of the Gadget and Open Social JavaScript APIs.

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