Utilities for an SSL-only Django site
Project description
Helping you remember to do the stupid little things to improve your Django site’s security.
Inspired by Mozilla’s Secure Coding Guidelines, and intended for sites that are entirely or mostly served over SSL (which should include anything with user logins).
Quickstart
Dependencies
Tested with Django 1.2 through trunk, and Python 2.5 through 2.7. Quite likely works with older versions of both, though; it’s not very complicated.
Installation
Install from PyPI with pip:
pip install django-secure
or get the in-development version:
pip install django-secure==dev
Usage
Add "djangosecure" to your INSTALLED_APPS setting.
Add "djangosecure.middleware.SecurityMiddleware" to your MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES setting (where depends on your other middlewares, but near the beginning of the list is probably a good choice).
Set the SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT setting to True if all non-SSL requests should be permanently redirected to SSL.
Set the SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS setting to an integer number of seconds, if you want to use HTTP Strict Transport Security.
Set the SECURE_FRAME_DENY setting to True, if you want to prevent framing of your pages and protect them from clickjacking.
Set SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY to True if you are using django.contrib.sessions. These settings are not part of django-secure, but they should be used if running a secure site, and the checksecure management command will check their values.
Run python manage.py checksecure to verify that your settings are properly configured for serving a secure SSL site.
Documentation
See the full documentation for more details.
CHANGES
0.1.0 (2011.05.29)
Initial release.
TODO
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