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    <p>so I have been playing around with django for a bit and I really do like this framework. However, I would like to understand better how it actually works 'under the covers'. </p> <p>Here is my current view of client-server-django world, which is very rough and will probably make your toenails curl (sorry)...</p> <ol> <li>The browser sends a Http request to the server.</li> <li>The server does its magic and dumps the request via the CGI to django (?)</li> <li>Some part of django (which?) receives the request and turns it into a django request object.</li> <li>The request object wanders on some nebulous paths through the middleware which does strange things with it.</li> <li>The request object finally ends up in some function (which?) which looks at the urls, takes the patterns out of urls.py and calls up a view function.</li> <li>The view functions do their magic (with models and templates as partners in vice) , this is probably where I have the strongest illusion of understanding (well, apart from the database abstraction magic, that is... ;)</li> <li>The view functions returns an HttpResponse object, I guess this is returned on some nebulous paths to the CGI.</li> <li>Webserver takes over again and sends the Http response to the client.</li> </ol> <p>Ok, so what the heck is my question you ask? Well, how does this all work, really? I am not expecting that you spoon-feed me everything... I suspect that the answer will ultimately be to "read the source, luke", however, I would be grateful if</p> <ol> <li>You could clear up my grosses misconseptions</li> <li>tell me where to start? What I would like to do is grap a debugger and just walk through the process a couple of times, but I don't really know where to get started</li> <li>you could point me to any documents that explain this well... yes, I have heard of this google thing but haven't really found anything super-useful.</li> </ol> <p>thanks a lot Paul</p>
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