# redirect-https Redirect from HTTP to HTTPS using meta redirects ```bash npm install --save redirect-https ``` ```javascript var http = require('http'); var server = http.createServer(); server.on('request', require('redirect-https')({ port: 443 , body: '' })); ``` # Why meta redirects? When something is broken (i.e. insecure), you don't want it to kinda work, you want developers to notice. Using a meta redirect will break requests from `curl` and api calls from a programming language, but still have all the SEO and speed benefits of a normal `301`. ```html ``` # Other strategies If your application is properly separated between static assets and api, then it would probably be more beneficial to return a 200 OK with an error message inside