The other day I released bpssl which is a Django application that helps you support HTTPS on your website. The main functionality is performing redirection for HTTPS only URLs and views. For instance, if a request for your login view '/login' is recieved over HTTP, the provided middleware can redirect the user to the equivalent HTTPS page. Specifying views and urls as secure is supported as [...]

Django's development server doesn't normally support HTTPS so it's hard to test applications with HTTPS without deploying the application to a real web server that supports HTTPS. The secret is to use two development server instances, one for http and one for https, and to use a tool called stunnel to can create an ssl tunnel to the development server to support HTTPS. First we need to set u[...]