DotNetCore: Adding HTTPS to your MVC webapp

I wanted to use https in my dotnetcore application (v. 1.0.0-rc2-final) and had to dig around the web quite a bit to find the most recent and working method to accomplish this. Eventually a link in the MVC github site lead to an example how to fix this (link).

First, the most easy way I've found to do this, is to add some custom middleware for redirecting all http requests to https:

public class HttpsRedirectMiddleware
    {
        readonly RequestDelegate _next;
        
        public HttpsRedirectMiddleware(RequestDelegate next)
        {
            _next = next;
         }

        public async Task Invoke(HttpContext context)
        {
            if (!context.Request.IsHttps)
            {
                HandleNonHttpsRequest(context);
            }
            else
            {
                await _next(context);
            }
        }
        
        void HandleNonHttpsRequest(HttpContext context)
        {
            // only redirect for GET requests, otherwise the browser might not propagate the verb and request
            // body correctly.
            if (!string.Equals(context.Request.HttpContext.Request.Method, "GET", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
            {
                context.Response.StatusCode = 403;
            }
            else
            {
                var newUrl = string.Concat(
                    "https://",
                    context.Request.Host.ToUriComponent(),
                    context.Request.PathBase.ToUriComponent(),
                    context.Request.Path.ToUriComponent(),
                    context.Request.QueryString.ToUriComponent());
                context.Response.Redirect(newUrl, permanent: true);
            }
        }
    }

I've added this right before the Mvc call:

services.AddMvc();