Django @login_required dropping https

Question

I'm trying to test my Django app locally using SSL. I have a view with the @login_required decorator. So when I hit /locker, I get redirected to /locker/login?next=/locker. This works fine with http.

However, whenever I use https, the redirect somehow drops the secure connection, so I get something like https://cumulus.dev/locker -> http://cumulus.dev/locker/login?next=/locker

If I go directly to https://cumulus.dev/locker/login?next=locker the page opens fine over a secure connection. But once I enter the username and password, I go back to http://cumulus.dev/locker.

I'm using Nginx to handle the SSL, which then talks to runserver. My nginx config is

upstream app_server_djangoapp {
server localhost:8000 fail_timeout=0;
}

server {
listen 80;
server_name cumulus.dev;

access_log  /var/log/nginx/cumulus-dev-access.log;
error_log  /var/log/nginx/cumulus-dev-error.log info;

keepalive_timeout 5;

# path for static files
root /home/gaurav/www/Cumulus/cumulus_lightbox/static;

location / {
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
    proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
    proxy_redirect off;

    if (!-f $request_filename) {
        proxy_pass http://app_server_djangoapp;
        break;
    }
}
}

server {
listen 443;
server_name cumulus.dev;

ssl on;
ssl_certificate /etc/ssl/cacert-cumulus.pem;
ssl_certificate_key /etc/ssl/privkey.pem;

access_log  /var/log/nginx/cumulus-dev-access.log;
error_log  /var/log/nginx/cumulus-dev-error.log info;

keepalive_timeout 5;

# path for static files
root /home/gaurav/www/Cumulus/cumulus_lightbox/static;

location / {
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Ssl on;
    proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
    proxy_redirect off;

    if (!-f $request_filename) {
        proxy_pass http://app_server_djangoapp;
        break;
    }
}
}

Django @login_required dropping https

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