As it turns out, my current configuration for the load balancer and EC2 instance currently allows plaintext HTTP external connections (with clients), but still encrypts all internal connections (with instances). That means I can now turn on my force_https method again and have all connections be fully encrypted again.
As it turns out, my current configuration for the load balancer and EC2 instance currently allows plaintext HTTP external connections (with clients), but still encrypts all internal connections (with instances). That means I can now turn on my
force_httpsmethod again and have all connections be fully encrypted again.