"this is the locale selecting middleware that will look at accept headers" from django.utils.cache import patch_vary_headers from django.utils import translation class LocaleMiddleware: """ This is a very simple middleware that parses a request and decides what translation object to install in the current thread context. This allows pages to be dynamically translated to the language the user desires (if the language is available, of course). """ def process_request(self, request): language = translation.get_language_from_request(request) translation.activate(language) request.LANGUAGE_CODE = translation.get_language() def process_response(self, request, response): patch_vary_headers(response, ('Accept-Language',)) response['Content-Language'] = translation.get_language() translation.deactivate() return response