Https with Http in Flask Python
Now i want to run the server using both http and https is there any possible way to do that ??
I have had a similar problem recently. To test whether a proxy is used after http is redirected to https, I've just started two processes on different ports: one for http, another for https:
#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""Serve both http and https. Redirect http to https."""
from flask import Flask, abort, redirect, request # $ pip install flask
app = Flask(__name__)
@app.route('/')
def index():
if request.url.startswith('http://'):
return redirect(request.url.replace('http', 'https', 1)
.replace('080', '443', 1))
elif request.url.startswith('https://'):
return 'Hello HTTPS World!'
abort(500)
def https_app(**kwargs):
import ssl
context = ssl.SSLContext(ssl.PROTOCOL_TLSv1_2)
context.load_cert_chain('server.crt', 'server.key')
app.run(ssl_context=context, **kwargs)
if __name__ == "__main__":
from multiprocessing import Process
kwargs = dict(host='localhost')
Process(target=https_app, kwargs=dict(kwargs, port=7443),
daemon=True).start()
app.run(port=7080, **kwargs)
Needless to say, it is only for testing/debugging purposes.
My I suggest trying out Flask-SSLify - https://github.com/kennethreitz/flask-sslify
Usage
Usage is pretty simple:
from flask import Flask
from flask_sslify import SSLify
app = Flask(__name__)
sslify = SSLify(app)
If you make an HTTP request, it will automatically redirect:
$ curl -I http://secure-samurai.herokuapp.com/
HTTP/1.1 302 FOUND
Content-length: 281
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2012 21:39:36 GMT
Location: https://secure-samurai.herokuapp.com/
Server: gunicorn/0.14.2
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000
Connection: keep-alive
Install
Installation is simple too:
$ pip install Flask-SSLify
First big thing: don't use the built in web server in flask to do any heavy lifting. You should use a real web server like apache (mod_wsgi) nginex + gunicore, etc. These servers have documentation on how to run http and https simultaneously.