Searched the fine web and didn't find a quick answer to how to redirect an http request to https in Mojolicious. I wanted to insure that logins were always secure. Finally cobbled together a solution and thought I should share and maybe get some improvements.

1. Run 2 webservers: one to handle http and the other to handle https, which for me is two incantations of hypnotoad
2. Add a route in your http App

   $r->get('/login')->to('MyApp#https_redirect');
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3. Add a sub to the http Controller

   sub https_redirect {
       my $self = shift;
   
       my $secure = $self->req->url->to_abs->scheme('https')->port(443);
       $self->redirect_to($secure);
   }
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4. Profit!

All the sub does is redirect the request to the new protocol at the same url. I've seen a method in the docs to a is_secure method which could be useful somewhere. Also, I tried using $r->any('/login'), but it doesn't work for me and I'm moving on.

Yes, I probably could've gotten a better answer inside 2 minutes on IRC (people are so very helpful), but it never occurs to me until afterwards.