Make a WSGI compatibility layer for Django middleware

[simon]

Another Mark Ramm suggestion at DjangoCon.

[mramm]

The idea here is that there should be easy access to a wsgi environ like dictionary, to make calling wsgi applications from within django trivial.

I would even propose that making a call_wsgi_app function that grabs the environ, creates a start_response callable, calls the wsgi app, and returns the response properly.

This would let users write code like:

def someview(request, *args)
    do_something(args)
    return call_wsgi_app(wsgi_app, request)

This would allow people who use django with SQLAlchemy to user RUM (A django admin like wsgi app) from a veiw, or to use some SOAP wsgi application, or a TurboGears app, or whatever they want in a Django view.

[mramm]

Ok, previous comment was meant for ticket 8927.

In this case, it would be awesome if the distinction between django middleware and wsgi middleware could mostly go away.

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[Luke Plant]

This appears to be a dupe of #8927.