Just one more :) I was wondering how I could debug an app that switches between http and https on django when 'python manage.py runserver' doesn't support it. As it has done in the past, stunnel came to my aid...

First download and build the latest stunnel. It's a ./configure; make; sudo make install thing. I needed to add the installed path (/usr/local/sbin) to my system path in /etc/profile too.

Second create a file that tells stunnel what to do - the examples showing things being passed on the command line are old. Unfortunately. I'm running with:

pid=

[https]
accept=8443
connect=8000

The empty pid line is important since otherwise it will attempt to write a pid file somewhere it doesn't have permission. I saved this file as "dev_https"

Finally start stunnel with stunnel dev_https, run your django project and attempt to connect to it with https://127.0.0.1:8443/
and you should be good to go. Any problems, change the dev_https file to have "foreground=yes" at the start and errors will be streamed to stderr.

Note: For OSX 10.5: It appears easier to run stunnel as root sudo stunnel dev_https and I added the path to my local profile (~/.profile) - PATH="${PATH}":/usr/local/sbin

Edit, again: You can do HTTPS=1 ./manage.py runserver to have calls to request.is_secure() return True.