Question

I am using the middleware provided in https://gist.github.com/426829 to do cross site scripting.

However, when I add the middleware to MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES, I get the error:

ImproperlyConfigured: isn’t a middleware module.

My MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES looks like this:

MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = ('django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
                      'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
                      'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
                      'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
                      'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
                      'TempMiddleware',)

I have not changed any code in the gist. process_request and process_response methods are there. I am on Ubuntu running the latest versions of Python and Django.

Answer 1

What’s TempMiddleware? The name of the module, or the name of the class? As you can see with the other entries, you need the fully-qualified Python path of the actual class. If TempMiddleware is the name of the module, you need TempMiddleware.MyMiddlewareClass (and you should really follow PEP8 naming conventions) – and if it’s the name of the class, you need my_module.TempMiddleware.