diff --git a/docs/quickstart.rst b/docs/quickstart.rst
index 4e98f858..3604bdd1 100644
--- a/docs/quickstart.rst
+++ b/docs/quickstart.rst
@@ -734,3 +734,14 @@ Here are some example log calls::
 The attached :attr:`~flask.Flask.logger` is a standard logging
 :class:`~logging.Logger`, so head over to the official stdlib
 documentation for more information.
+
+Hooking in WSGI Middlewares
+---------------------------
+
+If you want to add a WSGI middleware to your application you can wrap the
+internal WSGI application.  For example if you want to one of the
+middlewares from the Werkzeug package to work around bugs in lighttpd, you
+can do it like this::
+
+    from werkzeug.contrib.fixers import LighttpdCGIRootFix
+    app.wsgi_app = LighttpdCGIRootFix(app.wsgi_app)
diff --git a/flask/app.py b/flask/app.py
index 351c0c3a..21235897 100644
--- a/flask/app.py
+++ b/flask/app.py
@@ -724,6 +724,16 @@ class Flask(_PackageBoundObject):
             return self.response_class(*rv)
         return self.response_class.force_type(rv, request.environ)
 
+    def create_url_adapter(self, request):
+        """Creates a URL adapter for the given request.  The URL adapter
+        is created at a point where the request context is not yet set up
+        so the request is passed explicitly.
+
+        .. versionadded:: 0.6
+        """
+        return self.url_map.bind_to_environ(request.environ,
+            server_name=self.config['SERVER_NAME'])
+
     def preprocess_request(self):
         """Called before the actual request dispatching and will
         call every as :meth:`before_request` decorated function.
diff --git a/flask/ctx.py b/flask/ctx.py
index 854503af..1b17086c 100644
--- a/flask/ctx.py
+++ b/flask/ctx.py
@@ -28,9 +28,8 @@ class _RequestContext(object):
 
     def __init__(self, app, environ):
         self.app = app
-        self.url_adapter = app.url_map.bind_to_environ(environ,
-            server_name=app.config['SERVER_NAME'])
         self.request = app.request_class(environ)
+        self.url_adapter = app.create_url_adapter(self.request)
         self.session = app.open_session(self.request)
         if self.session is None:
             self.session = _NullSession()