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+#![deny(warnings)]
+extern crate futures;
+extern crate hyper;
+extern crate pretty_env_logger;
+extern crate tokio_core;
+
+use futures::{Future, Stream};
+
+use hyper::{Body, Chunk, Client, Get, Post, StatusCode};
+use hyper::error::Error;
+use hyper::header::ContentLength;
+use hyper::server::{Http, Service, Request, Response};
+
+#[allow(unused)]
+use std::ascii::AsciiExt;
+
+static NOTFOUND: &[u8] = b"Not Found";
+static URL: &str = "http://127.0.0.1:1337/web_api";
+static INDEX: &[u8] = b"<a href=\"test.html\">test.html</a>";
+static LOWERCASE: &[u8] = b"i am a lower case string";
+
+pub type ResponseStream = Box<Stream<Item=Chunk, Error=Error>>;
+
+struct ResponseExamples(tokio_core::reactor::Handle);
+
+impl Service for ResponseExamples {
+    type Request = Request;
+    type Response = Response<ResponseStream>;
+    type Error = hyper::Error;
+    type Future = Box<Future<Item = Self::Response, Error = Self::Error>>;
+
+    fn call(&self, req: Request) -> Self::Future {
+        match (req.method(), req.path()) {
+            (&Get, "/") | (&Get, "/index.html") => {
+                let body: ResponseStream = Box::new(Body::from(INDEX));
+                Box::new(futures::future::ok(Response::new()
+                                             .with_header(ContentLength(INDEX.len() as u64))
+                                             .with_body(body)))
+            },
+            (&Get, "/test.html") => {
+                // Run a web query against the web api below
+                let client = Client::configure().build(&self.0);
+                let mut req = Request::new(Post, URL.parse().unwrap());
+                req.set_body(LOWERCASE);
+                let web_res_future = client.request(req);
+
+                Box::new(web_res_future.map(|web_res| {
+                    let body: ResponseStream = Box::new(web_res.body().map(|b| {
+                        Chunk::from(format!("before: '{:?}'<br>after: '{:?}'",
+                                            std::str::from_utf8(LOWERCASE).unwrap(),
+                                            std::str::from_utf8(&b).unwrap()))
+                    }));
+                    Response::new().with_body(body)
+                }))
+            },
+            (&Post, "/web_api") => {
+                // A web api to run against. Simple upcasing of the body.
+                let body: ResponseStream = Box::new(req.body().map(|chunk| {
+                    let upper = chunk.iter().map(|byte| byte.to_ascii_uppercase())
+                        .collect::<Vec<u8>>();
+                    Chunk::from(upper)
+                }));
+                Box::new(futures::future::ok(Response::new().with_body(body)))
+            },
+            _ => {
+                let body: ResponseStream = Box::new(Body::from(NOTFOUND));
+                Box::new(futures::future::ok(Response::new()
+                                             .with_status(StatusCode::NotFound)
+                                             .with_header(ContentLength(NOTFOUND.len() as u64))
+                                             .with_body(body)))
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+}
+
+
+fn main() {
+    pretty_env_logger::init().unwrap();
+    let addr = "127.0.0.1:1337".parse().unwrap();
+
+    let mut core = tokio_core::reactor::Core::new().unwrap();
+    let handle = core.handle();
+    let client_handle = core.handle();
+
+    let serve = Http::new().serve_addr_handle(&addr, &handle, move || Ok(ResponseExamples(client_handle.clone()))).unwrap();
+    println!("Listening on http://{} with 1 thread.", serve.incoming_ref().local_addr());
+
+    let h2 = handle.clone();
+    handle.spawn(serve.for_each(move |conn| {
+        h2.spawn(conn.map(|_| ()).map_err(|err| println!("serve error: {:?}", err)));
+        Ok(())
+    }).map_err(|_| ()));
+
+    core.run(futures::future::empty::<(), ()>()).unwrap();
+}