[Mediawiki-l] Google Maps with Basic Authentication

[Henry Hartley]

I've installed the Google Maps extension and added my API Key to 
LocalSettings.php but I'm not getting any maps and I am getting a 
Javascript error. I don't know if this is the reason but one possibility 
is that it's because the site uses basic authentication. I know the 
Google API site says it only works on sites that are "free to 
consumers." My site isn't a business and is "free" as in beer to its 
users. It's just not freely available to the world because some of the 
information is not public. It's basically a family site (totally 
non-commercial) were my extended family shares stories and reminiscences 
and we'd rather it not be scooped up by the search engines. Yes, we're 
hoping to take advantage of Google without them being able to index the 
site and if that's unreasonable, then so be it.

On the other hand, the side doesn't have trade secrets or "account 
information" that would cost us if it got out so we didn't bother with 
SSL. It's just a simple MediaWiki site with basic (plain-text) 
authentication. Has anyone gotten this extension working with basic 
auth? When I turned off authentication it still failed so I'm not really 
sure that's the problem.

The Javascript error I'm getting is "unterminated string literal" on the 
line that ends:

     overlay.maxContent) { overlay.openInfoWindowHtml('‹/p›

It appears that the next line has the rest of the string literal that 
starts on the end of that line, so there isn't an obvious problem there.

Any ideas?

This is version 0.9.4 of the extension and version 1.13.3 of MediaWiki 
running on CentOS 5 with PHP 5.1.6. I'm viewing the site in Firefox 
3.0.8 on Windows.

-- 
Henry