I have a Python application that I want to run with the CherryPy WSGI
Server. My intention is to let the CherryPy server run on a non
standard port (say 9001) and then let IIS (yes, I know what you are
thinking, but that is what I have to work with) reverse proxy the
website requests to CherryPy.
However, I am wondering how I should handle HTTPS. Currently, there are
only a few pages in my app that need HTTPS. When running the app
natively in IIS, if one of those pages is requested using HTTP, I will
issue a HTTP header redirect to the HTTPS page. How should I handle
this in a reverse proxy situation? What I mean is, how do I detect in
my Python app if the original request to IIS is using SSL? I don't want
to have to run SSL on the connection from IIS to CherryPy.
I am thinking I could modify the headers to the CherryPy server adding
something like "X-is-ssl" and then use middleware on the python side to
set wsgi.url_scheme appropriately. I just don't know the HTTP standard
well enough to know how this kind of thing should be handled.
Thank you for any help you can provide.
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Randy Syring
RCS Computers & Web Solutions
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http://www.rcs-comp.com
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whatever you do, do all to the glory
of God." 1 Cor 10:31
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