Force SSL for Django Postgres connection

Question

I want to force Django to use SSL to connect to my postgres database.

This question indicates that I need to pass sslmode=\'require\' to the psycopg2 connec

Answer 1

If you're using dj_database_url you can pass ssl_require=True which sets the option for you.

import dj_database_url
DATABASES['default'] = dj_database_url.config(ssl_require=True)