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We will be disscussing the points: 1. What is a middleware 2. When to use middleware 3. Things to remember when writing middleware 4. Writing some middlewares to understand how order of middleware matters What is a middleware Middlewares are hooks to modify Django  request  or  response  object. Putting the definition of middleware from Django  docs . Middleware is a framework of hooks into Django ’ s request / response processing . It ’ s a light , low - level “ plugin ” system for globally altering Django ’ s input or output . When to use middleware You can use middleware if you want to modify the  request  i.e  HttpRequest  object which is sent to the view. Or you might want to modify the  HttpResponse  object returned from the view. Both these can be achieved by using a middleware. You might want to perform an operation before the view executes. In such case you would use a middleware. Django provides some default middleware. eg: A