Loading data from non-HTTPS sources

[shiffman]

I think this is related to p5-serial/p5.serialserver#33.

I was helping a student with a homework using data from a "moon phase" API: http://api.usno.navy.mil/moon/phase?date=9/23/2016&nump=1

The following code:

var data;
function preload() {
  data = loadJSON('http://api.usno.navy.mil/moon/phase?date=9/23/2016&nump=1');
}
function setup() {
}

results in this error:

Is there anything we can do about this or is this something we have to live with for non HTTPS APIs?

[catarak]

I tried this example on codepen, and I noticed that to solve this issue, Codepen serves their site in both http and https, except for login/signup. As a quick fix, I can serve the site in both http and https, and turn off redirecting http to https, and then figure out the login stuff later.

[shiffman]

This can be closed now that amazing @catarak has enabled http and https. . . Just tested and the code works now! 🎉 🎉