diff --git a/examples/wsgi/README.rst b/examples/wsgi/README.rst
index 100f28d..8886386 100644
--- a/examples/wsgi/README.rst
+++ b/examples/wsgi/README.rst
@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@ Socket.IO WSGI Examples
 =======================
 
 This directory contains example Socket.IO applications that work together with
-WSGI frameworks. These examples all use Flask to serve the client application to
-the web browser, but they should be easily adapted to use other WSGI compliant
-frameworks.
+WSGI frameworks. These examples use Flask or Django to serve the client
+application to the web browser, but they should be easily adapted to use other
+WSGI compliant frameworks.
 
 app.py
 ------
@@ -24,6 +24,12 @@ time to the page.
 This is an ideal application to measure the performance of the different
 asynchronous modes supported by the Socket.IO server.
 
+django_example
+--------------
+
+This is a version of the "app.py" application described above, that is based
+on the Django web framework.
+
 Running the Examples
 --------------------
 
@@ -36,13 +42,20 @@ or::
 
     $ python latency.py
 
+or::
+
+    $ cd django_example
+    $ ./manage.py runserver
+
 You can then access the application from your web browser at
-``http://localhost:5000``.
+``http://localhost:5000`` (``app.py`` and ``latency.py``) or
+``http://localhost:8000`` (``django_example``).
 
 Near the top of the ``app.py`` and ``latency.py`` source files there is a
 ``async_mode`` variable that can be edited to swich to the other asynchornous
 modes. Accepted values for ``async_mode`` are ``'threading'``, ``'eventlet'``
-and ``'gevent'``.
+and ``'gevent'``. For ``django_example``, the async mode can be set in the
+``django_example/socketio_app/views.py`` module.
 
 Note 1: when using the ``'eventlet'`` mode, the eventlet package must be
 installed in the virtual environment::
diff --git a/examples/wsgi/django_example/django_example/__init__.py b/examples/wsgi/django_example/django_example/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e69de29
diff --git a/examples/wsgi/django_example/django_example/settings.py b/examples/wsgi/django_example/django_example/settings.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2affbdd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/wsgi/django_example/django_example/settings.py
@@ -0,0 +1,121 @@
+"""
+Django settings for django_example project.
+
+Generated by 'django-admin startproject' using Django 1.11.1.
+
+For more information on this file, see
+https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/topics/settings/
+
+For the full list of settings and their values, see
+https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/ref/settings/
+"""
+
+import os
+
+# Build paths inside the project like this: os.path.join(BASE_DIR, ...)
+BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
+
+
+# Quick-start development settings - unsuitable for production
+# See https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/howto/deployment/checklist/
+
+# SECURITY WARNING: keep the secret key used in production secret!
+SECRET_KEY = '+vk#7#92ncb*y)8^$7sd&99%^+xc+t)nmamacbp8^vgjy(&g-9'
+
+# SECURITY WARNING: don't run with debug turned on in production!
+DEBUG = True
+
+ALLOWED_HOSTS = []
+
+
+# Application definition
+
+INSTALLED_APPS = [
+    'socketio_app',
+    'django.contrib.admin',
+    'django.contrib.auth',
+    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
+    'django.contrib.sessions',
+    'django.contrib.messages',
+    'django.contrib.staticfiles',
+]
+
+MIDDLEWARE = [
+    'django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware',
+    'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
+    'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
+    'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
+    'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
+    'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
+    'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware',
+]
+
+ROOT_URLCONF = 'django_example.urls'
+
+TEMPLATES = [
+    {
+        'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
+        'DIRS': [],
+        'APP_DIRS': True,
+        'OPTIONS': {
+            'context_processors': [
+                'django.template.context_processors.debug',
+                'django.template.context_processors.request',
+                'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
+                'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',
+            ],
+        },
+    },
+]
+
+WSGI_APPLICATION = 'django_example.wsgi.application'
+
+
+# Database
+# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/ref/settings/#databases
+
+DATABASES = {
+    'default': {
+        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
+        'NAME': os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'db.sqlite3'),
+    }
+}
+
+
+# Password validation
+# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/ref/settings/#auth-password-validators
+
+AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS = [
+    {
+        'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.UserAttributeSimilarityValidator',
+    },
+    {
+        'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.MinimumLengthValidator',
+    },
+    {
+        'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.CommonPasswordValidator',
+    },
+    {
+        'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.NumericPasswordValidator',
+    },
+]
+
+
+# Internationalization
+# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/topics/i18n/
+
+LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en-us'
+
+TIME_ZONE = 'UTC'
+
+USE_I18N = True
+
+USE_L10N = True
+
+USE_TZ = True
+
+
+# Static files (CSS, JavaScript, Images)
+# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/howto/static-files/
+
+STATIC_URL = '/static/'
diff --git a/examples/wsgi/django_example/django_example/urls.py b/examples/wsgi/django_example/django_example/urls.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5af870f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/wsgi/django_example/django_example/urls.py
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+"""django_example URL Configuration
+
+The `urlpatterns` list routes URLs to views. For more information please see:
+    https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/topics/http/urls/
+Examples:
+Function views
+    1. Add an import:  from my_app import views
+    2. Add a URL to urlpatterns:  url(r'^$', views.home, name='home')
+Class-based views
+    1. Add an import:  from other_app.views import Home
+    2. Add a URL to urlpatterns:  url(r'^$', Home.as_view(), name='home')
+Including another URLconf
+    1. Import the include() function: from django.conf.urls import url, include
+    2. Add a URL to urlpatterns:  url(r'^blog/', include('blog.urls'))
+"""
+from django.conf.urls import url, include
+from django.contrib import admin
+
+urlpatterns = [
+    url(r'', include('socketio_app.urls')),
+    url(r'^admin/', admin.site.urls),
+]
diff --git a/examples/wsgi/django_example/django_example/wsgi.py b/examples/wsgi/django_example/django_example/wsgi.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cc738a6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/wsgi/django_example/django_example/wsgi.py
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+"""
+WSGI config for django_example project.
+
+It exposes the WSGI callable as a module-level variable named ``application``.
+
+For more information on this file, see
+https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/howto/deployment/wsgi/
+"""
+
+import os
+
+from django.core.wsgi import get_wsgi_application
+from socketio import Middleware
+
+from socketio_app.views import sio
+
+os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "django_example.settings")
+
+django_app = get_wsgi_application()
+application = Middleware(sio, django_app)
diff --git a/examples/wsgi/django_example/manage.py b/examples/wsgi/django_example/manage.py
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..cb19182
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/wsgi/django_example/manage.py
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+import os
+import sys
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "django_example.settings")
+    try:
+        from django.core.management import execute_from_command_line
+    except ImportError:
+        # The above import may fail for some other reason. Ensure that the
+        # issue is really that Django is missing to avoid masking other
+        # exceptions on Python 2.
+        try:
+            import django
+        except ImportError:
+            raise ImportError(
+                "Couldn't import Django. Are you sure it's installed and "
+                "available on your PYTHONPATH environment variable? Did you "
+                "forget to activate a virtual environment?"
+            )
+        raise
+    execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)
diff --git a/examples/wsgi/django_example/socketio_app/__init__.py b/examples/wsgi/django_example/socketio_app/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e69de29
diff --git a/examples/wsgi/django_example/socketio_app/admin.py b/examples/wsgi/django_example/socketio_app/admin.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8c38f3f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/wsgi/django_example/socketio_app/admin.py
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+from django.contrib import admin
+
+# Register your models here.
diff --git a/examples/wsgi/django_example/socketio_app/apps.py b/examples/wsgi/django_example/socketio_app/apps.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..555c1a8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/wsgi/django_example/socketio_app/apps.py
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+from django.apps import AppConfig
+
+
+class SocketioAppConfig(AppConfig):
+    name = 'socketio_app'
diff --git a/examples/wsgi/django_example/socketio_app/management/__init__.py b/examples/wsgi/django_example/socketio_app/management/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e69de29
diff --git a/examples/wsgi/django_example/socketio_app/management/commands/__init__.py b/examples/wsgi/django_example/socketio_app/management/commands/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e69de29
diff --git a/examples/wsgi/django_example/socketio_app/management/commands/runserver.py b/examples/wsgi/django_example/socketio_app/management/commands/runserver.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..69bd6b4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/wsgi/django_example/socketio_app/management/commands/runserver.py
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+from django.core.management.commands.runserver import Command as RunCommand
+
+from socketio_app.views import sio
+
+
+class Command(RunCommand):
+    help = 'Run the Socket.IO server'
+
+    def handle(self, *args, **options):
+        if sio.async_mode == 'threading':
+            super(Command, self).handle(*args, **options)
+        elif sio.async_mode == 'eventlet':
+            # deploy with eventlet
+            import eventlet
+            import eventlet.wsgi
+            from django_example.wsgi import application
+            eventlet.wsgi.server(eventlet.listen(('', 8000)), application)
+        elif sio.async_mode == 'gevent':
+            # deploy with gevent
+            from gevent import pywsgi
+            from django_example.wsgi import application
+            try:
+                from geventwebsocket.handler import WebSocketHandler
+                websocket = True
+            except ImportError:
+                websocket = False
+            if websocket:
+                pywsgi.WSGIServer(
+                    ('', 8000), application,
+                    handler_class=WebSocketHandler).serve_forever()
+            else:
+                pywsgi.WSGIServer(('', 8000), application).serve_forever()
+        elif sio.async_mode == 'gevent_uwsgi':
+            print('Start the application through the uwsgi server. Example:')
+            print('uwsgi --http :5000 --gevent 1000 --http-websockets '
+                  '--master --wsgi-file django_example/wsgi.py --callable '
+                  'application')
+        else:
+            print('Unknown async_mode: ' + sio.async_mode)
diff --git a/examples/wsgi/django_example/socketio_app/migrations/__init__.py b/examples/wsgi/django_example/socketio_app/migrations/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e69de29
diff --git a/examples/wsgi/django_example/socketio_app/models.py b/examples/wsgi/django_example/socketio_app/models.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..71a8362
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/wsgi/django_example/socketio_app/models.py
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+from django.db import models
+
+# Create your models here.
diff --git a/examples/wsgi/django_example/socketio_app/static/index.html b/examples/wsgi/django_example/socketio_app/static/index.html
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0e02a82
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/wsgi/django_example/socketio_app/static/index.html
@@ -0,0 +1,91 @@
+<!DOCTYPE HTML>
+<html>
+<head>
+    <title>Django + SocketIO Test</title>
+    <script type="text/javascript" src="//code.jquery.com/jquery-3.2.1.slim.min.js"></script>
+    <script type="text/javascript" src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/socket.io/2.0.1/socket.io.slim.js"></script>
+    <script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">
+        $(document).ready(function(){
+            namespace = '/test';
+            var socket = io.connect('http://' + document.domain + ':' + location.port + namespace);
+
+            socket.on('connect', function() {
+                socket.emit('my event', {data: 'I\'m connected!'});
+            });
+            socket.on('disconnect', function() {
+                $('#log').append('<br>Disconnected');
+            });
+            socket.on('my response', function(msg) {
+                $('#log').append('<br>Received: ' + msg.data);
+            });
+
+            // event handler for server sent data
+            // the data is displayed in the "Received" section of the page
+            // handlers for the different forms in the page
+            // these send data to the server in a variety of ways
+            $('form#emit').submit(function(event) {
+                socket.emit('my event', {data: $('#emit_data').val()});
+                return false;
+            });
+            $('form#broadcast').submit(function(event) {
+                socket.emit('my broadcast event', {data: $('#broadcast_data').val()});
+                return false;
+            });
+            $('form#join').submit(function(event) {
+                socket.emit('join', {room: $('#join_room').val()});
+                return false;
+            });
+            $('form#leave').submit(function(event) {
+                socket.emit('leave', {room: $('#leave_room').val()});
+                return false;
+            });
+            $('form#send_room').submit(function(event) {
+                socket.emit('my room event', {room: $('#room_name').val(), data: $('#room_data').val()});
+                return false;
+            });
+            $('form#close').submit(function(event) {
+                socket.emit('close room', {room: $('#close_room').val()});
+                return false;
+            });
+            $('form#disconnect').submit(function(event) {
+                socket.emit('disconnect request');
+                return false;
+            });
+        });
+    </script>
+</head>
+<body>
+    <h1>Django + SocketIO Test</h1>
+    <h2>Send:</h2>
+    <form id="emit" method="POST" action='#'>
+        <input type="text" name="emit_data" id="emit_data" placeholder="Message">
+        <input type="submit" value="Echo">
+    </form>
+    <form id="broadcast" method="POST" action='#'>
+        <input type="text" name="broadcast_data" id="broadcast_data" placeholder="Message">
+        <input type="submit" value="Broadcast">
+    </form>
+    <form id="join" method="POST" action='#'>
+        <input type="text" name="join_room" id="join_room" placeholder="Room Name">
+        <input type="submit" value="Join Room">
+    </form>
+    <form id="leave" method="POST" action='#'>
+        <input type="text" name="leave_room" id="leave_room" placeholder="Room Name">
+        <input type="submit" value="Leave Room">
+    </form>
+    <form id="send_room" method="POST" action='#'>
+        <input type="text" name="room_name" id="room_name" placeholder="Room Name">
+        <input type="text" name="room_data" id="room_data" placeholder="Message">
+        <input type="submit" value="Send to Room">
+    </form>
+    <form id="close" method="POST" action="#">
+        <input type="text" name="close_room" id="close_room" placeholder="Room Name">
+        <input type="submit" value="Close Room">
+    </form>
+    <form id="disconnect" method="POST" action="#">
+        <input type="submit" value="Disconnect">
+    </form>
+    <h2>Receive:</h2>
+    <div><p id="log"></p></div>
+</body>
+</html>
diff --git a/examples/wsgi/django_example/socketio_app/tests.py b/examples/wsgi/django_example/socketio_app/tests.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7ce503c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/wsgi/django_example/socketio_app/tests.py
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+from django.test import TestCase
+
+# Create your tests here.
diff --git a/examples/wsgi/django_example/socketio_app/urls.py b/examples/wsgi/django_example/socketio_app/urls.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e0409c0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/wsgi/django_example/socketio_app/urls.py
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+from django.conf.urls import url
+
+from . import views
+
+urlpatterns = [
+    url(r'', views.index, name='index'),
+]
diff --git a/examples/wsgi/django_example/socketio_app/views.py b/examples/wsgi/django_example/socketio_app/views.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5608105
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/wsgi/django_example/socketio_app/views.py
@@ -0,0 +1,86 @@
+# set async_mode to 'threading', 'eventlet', 'gevent' or 'gevent_uwsgi' to
+# force a mode else, the best mode is selected automatically from what's
+# installed
+async_mode = 'threading'
+
+import os
+
+from django.http import HttpResponse
+import socketio
+
+basedir = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))
+sio = socketio.Server(async_mode=async_mode)
+thread = None
+
+
+def index(request):
+    global thread
+    if thread is None:
+        thread = sio.start_background_task(background_thread)
+    return HttpResponse(open(os.path.join(basedir, 'static/index.html')))
+
+
+def background_thread():
+    """Example of how to send server generated events to clients."""
+    count = 0
+    while True:
+        sio.sleep(10)
+        count += 1
+        sio.emit('my response', {'data': 'Server generated event'},
+                 namespace='/test')
+
+
+@sio.on('my event', namespace='/test')
+def test_message(sid, message):
+    sio.emit('my response', {'data': message['data']}, room=sid,
+             namespace='/test')
+
+
+@sio.on('my broadcast event', namespace='/test')
+def test_broadcast_message(sid, message):
+    sio.emit('my response', {'data': message['data']}, namespace='/test')
+
+
+@sio.on('join', namespace='/test')
+def join(sid, message):
+    sio.enter_room(sid, message['room'], namespace='/test')
+    sio.emit('my response', {'data': 'Entered room: ' + message['room']},
+             room=sid, namespace='/test')
+
+
+@sio.on('leave', namespace='/test')
+def leave(sid, message):
+    sio.leave_room(sid, message['room'], namespace='/test')
+    sio.emit('my response', {'data': 'Left room: ' + message['room']},
+             room=sid, namespace='/test')
+
+
+@sio.on('close room', namespace='/test')
+def close(sid, message):
+    sio.emit('my response',
+             {'data': 'Room ' + message['room'] + ' is closing.'},
+             room=message['room'], namespace='/test')
+    sio.close_room(message['room'], namespace='/test')
+
+
+@sio.on('my room event', namespace='/test')
+def send_room_message(sid, message):
+    sio.emit('my response', {'data': message['data']}, room=message['room'],
+             namespace='/test')
+
+
+@sio.on('disconnect request', namespace='/test')
+def disconnect_request(sid):
+    sio.disconnect(sid, namespace='/test')
+
+
+@sio.on('connect', namespace='/test')
+def test_connect(sid, environ):
+    sio.emit('my response', {'data': 'Connected', 'count': 0}, room=sid,
+             namespace='/test')
+
+
+@sio.on('disconnect', namespace='/test')
+def test_disconnect(sid):
+    print('Client disconnected')
+