This middleware removes extra back2back slashes from incoming request

SingleSlash

from django.http import HttpResponseRedirect
import re

slash_re = re.compile('/{2,}')

class SingleSlashes:
    """ This middleware removes extra back2back slashes from an incoming request """
    def process_request(self, request):
        if '//' in request.path:
            new_path = slash_re.sub('/', request.path)
            return HttpResponseRedirect(new_path)
        else:
            return None