So you love Google Charts API and want to spice up your app with lots of pretty bar charts, Venn diagrams, Google-o-meters and 2D bar codes (QR Codes) – only problem is, you require that users connect to your site using a secure connection (https://yoursite.com/whatever). Well, as you are probably aware, the Google Charts API doesn’t ex

actly support SSL connections… directly.

Have no fear! If you are willing to give up a little bit of your own bandwidth, you can work around this problem. We are going to do this using a simple PHP script and if you want to get really fancy, Memcached to keep the redundant API calls to a minimum.

Let’s get started.
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