Question

I have python/django app on Heroku (Cedar stack) and would like to make it accessible over https only. I have enabled the “ssl piggyback”-option, and can connect to it via https.

But what is the best way to disable http access, or redirect to https?

Answer 1

Combining the answer from @CraigKerstiens and @allanlei into something I have tested, and verified to work. Heroku sets the HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO to https when request is ssl, and we can use this to check:

from django.conf import settings
from django.http import HttpResponseRedirect


class SSLMiddleware(object):

    def process_request(self, request):
        if not any([settings.DEBUG, request.is_secure(), request.META.get("HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO", "") == 'https']):
            url = request.build_absolute_uri(request.get_full_path())
            secure_url = url.replace("http://", "https://")
            return HttpResponseRedirect(secure_url)