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force-ssl-heroku-eb
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An express middleware that redirects unencrypted HTTP requests to HTTPS on Heroku instances.
Heroku does SSL termination at its load balancer. However, the internal nodeJS app can tell if the original request was made with HTTP by inspecting headers inserted by Heroku. We can use this to redirect to the HTTPS Heroku url.
npm install force-ssl-heroku --save
It's designed for use with express:
var express = require('express');
var forceSsl = require('force-ssl-heroku');
var app = express();
app.use(forceSsl);
// Example:
app.get('/ping', pingHandler); // I'll now redirect to HTTPS.
// ... configure the rest of your routes.
app.listen(3000, 'localhost');
It works because Heroku exposes your app through a reverse proxy which is used for load-balancing and other things. This reverse proxy does SSL termination and forwards to your app which should only accept connections from localhost. The middleware detects this situation by inspecting headers inserted by Heroku's reverse proxy; since headers can be spoofed, you should not use this middleware anywhere that's not behind such a proxy!
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An express middleware that redirects unencrypted HTTP requests to HTTPS
The npm package force-ssl-heroku-eb receives a total of 1 weekly downloads. As such, force-ssl-heroku-eb popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that force-ssl-heroku-eb demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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