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  • Good question; the project seems to assume a definition that has little to do with the common usage of the term Middleware. Commented Jul 1, 2013 at 12:04
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    ...and that taking an existing term and slapping "pattern" on the end makes it something more than it actually is. Commented Jul 1, 2013 at 12:11
  • based on the description given "responsible for calling the next middleware, and may modify the request along the way" - this seems to be a simplification of one of the GoF patterns, the Chain of Responsibility en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain-of-responsibility_pattern PHP frameworks like CakePHP & Laravel use middleware. Commented Dec 29, 2019 at 20:16