SSL/HTTPS GeoServer

[alansnow21]

When migrating over to HTTPS, there are several gotchas we need to address/be aware of that I have run into so far:

1) If you Tethys Platform server uses HTTPS, then your GeoServer also must use HTTPS due to Mixed Content errors.

See: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/33507566/mixed-content-blocked-when-running-an-http-ajax-operation-in-an-https-page

2) When using GeoServer's python implementation & the python requests library, the certificate needs to be used on the server for validation. A standard method to implement this will be important.

See:

http://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/user/advanced/#ssl-cert-verification

https://github.com/boundlessgeo/gsconfig/blob/master/src/geoserver/catalog.py

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27816814/python-httplib2-certificate-verify-failed