Django-CSP

Django-CSP is a Content Security Policy implementation for Django. It is implemented as middleware.

Using Django-CSP

Django-CSP is configured entirely in Django's settings. Almost all the arguments take a tuple of possible values (cf the spec). Only the default-src directive has a default value ('self'). All others are ignored unless specified.

Turning on CSP

The simplest step is just turning on the middleware:

MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
    # ...
    'csp.middleware.CSPMiddleware',
    # ...
)

and adding csp to your installed apps [1]

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    # ...
    'csp',
    # ...
)

The Settings

These settings take a tuple of values. For simplicity, the special values 'self', 'unsafe-inline', and 'unsafe-eval' must contain the single quotes. See the spec for allowed use of the * wildcard:

CSP_DEFAULT_SRC
CSP_IMG_SRC
CSP_SCRIPT_SRC
CSP_STYLE_SRC
CSP_OBJECT_SRC
CSP_MEDIA_SRC
CSP_FRAME_SRC
CSP_FONT_SRC
CSP_CONNECT_SRC
CSP_SANDBOX

The following settings take only a URI, not a tuple:

CSP_REPORT_URI

You can disable CSP for specific url prefixes with the CSP_EXCLUDE_URL_PREFIXES setting. For example, to exclude the django admin (which uses inline Javascript) with the standard urlconf:

CSP_EXCLUDE_URL_PREFIXES = ('/admin',)

Report URI

Content Security Policy allows you to specify a URI that accepts violation reports. Django-CSP includes a view that accepts these reports, processes, and stores them. Reports are grouped according to a herusitic combination, and if a new Group is recognized, Django-CSP will notify by email, either by mailing the ADMINS list, or the list in the CSP_NOTIFY setting.

To accept violation reports, you need only add the following to your site's urls.py:

(r'^csp', include('csp.urls')),

Then set the CSP_REPORT_URI in settings.py accordingly:

CSP_REPORT_URI = '/csp/report'

Report-Only Mode

Content Security Policy supports a report-only mode that will send violation reports but not enforce the policy in the browser. This allows you to test a site for compliance without potentially breaking anything for your users.

To activate report-only mode, simply turn on CSP_REPORT_ONLY in settings:

CSP_REPORT_ONLY = True

Modifying the Policy

Right now, the only way to modify the policy is with the @csp_exempt decorator:

from csp.decorators import csp_exempt

@csp_exempt
def myview(request):
    return HttpResponse()

This will prevent the CSPMiddleware from sending any CSP headers from this view.

TODO

• @csp_patch decorator that will allow you to patch a policy for a specific view. Will be... complicated.
• @csp_override decorator that allows you to replace a policy for a specific view.

[1]	Strictly speaking, csp only needs to be in your installed apps if you plan to use the report feature.