# Advanced Middleware

In the main tutorial you read how to add [Custom Middleware](../tutorial/middleware.md){.internal-link target=_blank} to your application.

And then you also read how to handle [CORS with the `CORSMiddleware`](../tutorial/cors.md){.internal-link target=_blank}.

In this section we'll see how to use other middlewares.

## Adding ASGI middlewares

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android {
  compileSdk = 34

  namespace = "okhttp.android"

  defaultConfig {
    minSdk = 21

    // Make sure to use the AndroidJUnitRunner (or a sub-class) in order to hook in the JUnit 5 Test Builder
    testInstrumentationRunner = "androidx.test.runner.AndroidJUnitRunner"

    buildFeatures {
      buildConfig = false
    }

    testOptions {

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