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Request Pipeline
See how Django processes incoming requests and returns responses — from URL routing and middleware to views, sessions, authentication, and final output. Learn how each layer interacts so you can understand what happens behind every page load.
Introduction to Django’s Request Pipeline
This article introduces Django’s request pipeline and explains how an HTTP request moves through the web server, WSGI or ASGI, middleware, URL resolution, views, forms, models, templates, and back as an HTTP response. It also covers authentication, sessions, CSRF, redirects, errors, static and media requests, debugging, and common request-handling mistakes.
When a browser opens a Django page, a surprising amount of work happens before HTML appears on the screen.
A request such as:
```text GET /articl ...
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