How can you drop an HttpRequest connection in Django when TLS/SSL is not being used?

Question

I\'m writing a Django 1.3 view method which requires TLS/SSL to be used. I want to entirely drop the connection if an HttpRequest is received without using TLS/SSL and NOT r

Answer 1

If you are using Nginx as your front-end proxy then you can use another non-standard HTTP status code 444 which closes the connection without sending any headers. http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpRewriteModule#return It would require that Nginx know enough about which urls to deny on HTTP.