rack-secure_only

SecureOnly will redirect to https if the request is on http.

When passed :secure => false it will do the opposite and redirect https to http.

The check if the current request is on https includes checking the HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO header. This means the redirect will also work on heroku.com

This can be disabled by setting the :use_http_x_forwarded_proto option to false.

Installation

sudo gem install rack-secure_only

Usage

require 'rack-secure_only'

app = Rack::Builder.new do      
  map '/secure' do
    use Rack::SecureOnly
    run lambda { |env| [200, { 'Content-Type' => 'text/plain' }, ["SECURE APP"]] }
  end

  map '/notsecure' do
    use Rack::SecureOnly, :secure => false
    run lambda { |env| [200, { 'Content-Type' => 'text/plain' }, ["NON SECURE APP"]] }
  end

  map '/secure_without_http_x_forwarded_proto_check' do
    use Rack::SecureOnly, :use_http_x_forwarded_proto => false
    run lambda { |env| [200, { 'Content-Type' => 'text/plain' }, ["SECURE APP"]] }
  end

  map '/secure_with_fixed_redirect_url' do
    use Rack::SecureOnly, :redirect_to => "https://my.site.org/login"
    run lambda { |env| [200, { 'Content-Type' => 'text/plain' }, ["SECURE APP"]] }
  end

  map '/secure_with_an_if_condition' do
    use Rack::SecureOnly, :if => ENV['RACK_ENV'] == 'production'
    run lambda { |env| [200, { 'Content-Type' => 'text/plain' }, ["SECURE APP"]] }
  end

  map '/secure_with_an_if_condition_block' do
    use Rack::SecureOnly, :if => Proc.new { |request| request.params.key?('secure_thing') }
    run lambda { |env| [200, { 'Content-Type' => 'text/plain' }, ["APP"]] }
  end
end

run app

This will redirect all requests to /secure to https and all requests to /notsecure to http.

Rack::Request

When rack-secure_only is required the Rack::Request will be extended with some convenience methods to determine if the current request is http or https

require 'rack-secure_only'

run lambda { |env| 
  req = Request.new(env)
  
  res_body = ""
  
  if req.https?
    res_body = "You just made a request on https"
  elsif req.http?
    res_body = "You just made a request on http"
  elsif req.https?(false) # do not check the HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO header
    res_body = "You just made a request on a url with scheme https"  
  elsif req.http?(false) # do not check the HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO header
    res_body = "You just made a request on a url with scheme http, I did not check the HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO header"
  end
  
  res_body << " and the HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO header was set to" + req.forwarded_proto
  
  [200, { 'Content-Type' => 'text/plain' }, res_body]
}

Note on Patches/Pull Requests

• Fork the project.
• Make your feature addition or bug fix.
• Add tests for it. This is important so I don't break it in a future version unintentionally.
• Commit, do not mess with rakefile, version, or history. (if you want to have your own version, that is fine but bump version in a commit by itself I can ignore when I pull)
• Send me a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2010 Klaas Speller. See LICENSE for details.