How to enforce HTTPS traffic to Google App Engine with custom domain?

Question

I have a site on Google Domains (www.example.com) and it\'s hosted with Gcloud. I followed the instructions listed here to set up SSL and https: https://cloud.google.com/app

Answer 1

Not sure what backend language you are using, but you can brute-force to ssl by checking the request header then redirecting. Example:

if request.environ.get('HTTPS') == 'off':
    return redirect('https://www.example.com' + request.environ.get('PATH_INFO'), 301)