Which products are affected?
Google Earth
What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Create a placemark with an httpS link in the balloon
2. When GE settings of Tools>>>Options...>>>General>>>Display>>>"Show web
results in an external browser" is UN-checked (which is the default) the
https link will not load in GE's internal browser
3(FYI). When you check the box to open links in an external browser https
links work as normal.
What is the expected output or behavior? What do you see instead?
The GE internal browser should have the same functionality as an external
browser... especially for something as common as a secure http link (https).
What application versions (if any) are you using?
tried it on 5 and 6... same results.
Which operating systems (and/or relevant web browsers) are affected?
XP (perhaps others), and the GE internal web browser
Please provide any additional information (code snippets/links) below.
The issue was brought up here:
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/earth/thread?tid=153a3021ad45c250&hl=en
The details of what happened when three different users tried this are
documented there as well. We all used a very basic placemark to test with.
Code is below:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<kml xmlns="http://www.opengis.net/kml/2.2"
xmlns:gx="http://www.google.com/kml/ext/2.2"
xmlns:kml="http://www.opengis.net/kml/2.2"
xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
<Document>
<name>KmlFile</name>
<Style id="sn_blue-pushpin">
<IconStyle>
<scale>1.1</scale>
<Icon>
<href>http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/kml/pushpin/blue-pushpin.png</href>
</Icon>
<hotSpot x="20" y="2" xunits="pixels" yunits="pixels"/>
</IconStyle>
<ListStyle>
</ListStyle>
</Style>
<StyleMap id="msn_blue-pushpin">
<Pair>
<key>normal</key>
<styleUrl>#sn_blue-pushpin</styleUrl>
</Pair>
<Pair>
<key>highlight</key>
<styleUrl>#sh_blue-pushpin</styleUrl>
</Pair>
</StyleMap>
<Style id="sh_blue-pushpin">
<IconStyle>
<scale>1.3</scale>
<Icon>
<href>http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/kml/pushpin/blue-pushpin.png</href>
</Icon>
<hotSpot x="20" y="2" xunits="pixels" yunits="pixels"/>
</IconStyle>
<ListStyle>
</ListStyle>
</Style>
<Placemark>
<name>Scotland_Old_Parochial_Registers</name>
<description>
https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Scotland_Old_Parochial_Registers_%28OPR%29</des
cription>
<LookAt>
<longitude>-4.172661743311231</longitude>
<latitude>56.57823226001499</latitude>
<altitude>0</altitude>
<heading>-19.62337063507356</heading>
<tilt>12.096905044201</tilt>
<range>412569.8148627505</range>
<altitudeMode>relativeToGround</altitudeMode>
<gx:altitudeMode>relativeToSeaFloor</gx:altitudeMode>
</LookAt>
<styleUrl>#msn_blue-pushpin</styleUrl>
<Point>
<altitudeMode>absolute</altitudeMode>
<coordinates>-4.172661743311231,56.57823226001499,301.4032293241924</coordinates
>
</Point>
</Placemark>
</Document>
</kml>
Original issue reported on code.google.com by Wesley.H...@gmail.com on 7 Dec 2010 at 10:27
Original issue reported on code.google.com by
Wesley.H...@gmail.comon 7 Dec 2010 at 10:27