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When using Amazon's ELB with SSL termination, Django needs to know that the requests are secure. You need to use the special indication given on the request (HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO) to determine that. This middleware will do that for you.
The second part is forcing requests to HTTPS in case they are not. This part is not mandatory and could probably be done using configuration rules in your HTTP server. Note that I did it for the specific site, simply to avoid redirecting requests which are not of interest in the first place.
This snippet is based on work done in [Django-Heroism](https://github.com/rossdakin/django-heroism).
The snippet enables decoupling model classes, associated with a ForeignKey, for the purpose of separating them into two databases. Looking at the following example:
class Reporter(models.Model):
...
class Article(models.Model):
reporter = models.ForeignKey(Reporter)
We want to separate the `Reporter` and `Article` into two separate databases, but this won't work in Django because of the [cross model relations](http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/db/multi-db/#cross-database-relations). The solution is to use an ID field and not a `ForeignKey` one. This makes the access very uncomfortable. The above class will make this a bit less awkward. It doesn't support the [RelatedManager](http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/models/relations/#django.db.models.fields.related.RelatedManager), but it will support accessing the related field as you normally would.
The article class will look like this (assuming the reporter model id field is an `IntegerField`):
class Article(DecoupledModel):
reporter_id = models.IntegerField()
_linked_fields = {
'reporter': Reporter,
}
Once you have an article object, you can access the reporter as you normally would for both read and writing. For example:
my_reporter = article1.reporter
article2.reporter = my_reporter
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