diff --git a/examples/client.rs b/examples/client.rs
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+//! A simple example of hooking up stdin/stdout to a WebSocket stream.
+//!
+//! This example will connect to a server specified in the argument list and
+//! then forward all data read on stdin to the server, printing out all data
+//! received on stdout.
+//!
+//! Note that this is not currently optimized for performance, especially around
+//! buffer management. Rather it's intended to show an example of working with a
+//! client.
+//!
+//! You can use this example together with the `server` example.
+
+extern crate futures;
+extern crate tokio_core;
+extern crate tokio_tungstenite;
+extern crate tungstenite;
+extern crate url;
+
+use std::env;
+use std::io::{self, Read, Write};
+use std::net::ToSocketAddrs;
+use std::thread;
+
+use futures::sync::mpsc;
+use futures::{Future, Sink, Stream};
+use tokio_core::net::TcpStream;
+use tokio_core::reactor::Core;
+use tokio_tungstenite::ClientHandshakeExt;
+use tungstenite::handshake::client::{ClientHandshake, Request};
+use tungstenite::protocol::Message;
+
+fn main() {
+    // Specify the server address to which the client will be connecting.
+    let connect_addr = env::args().nth(1).unwrap_or_else(|| {
+        panic!("this program requires at least one argument")
+    });
+
+    // Get a first IP address of the server from the server URL.
+    let url = url::Url::parse(&connect_addr).unwrap();
+    let addr = url.to_socket_addrs().unwrap().next().unwrap();
+
+    // Create the event loop and initiate the connection to the remote server.
+    let mut core = Core::new().unwrap();
+    let handle = core.handle();
+    let tcp = TcpStream::connect(&addr, &handle);
+
+    // Right now Tokio doesn't support a handle to stdin running on the event
+    // loop, so we farm out that work to a separate thread. This thread will
+    // read data from stdin and then send it to the event loop over a standard
+    // futures channel.
+    let (stdin_tx, stdin_rx) = mpsc::channel(0);
+    thread::spawn(|| read_stdin(stdin_tx));
+    let stdin_rx = stdin_rx.map_err(|_| panic!()); // errors not possible on rx
+
+    // After the TCP connection has been established, we set up our client to
+    // start forwarding data.
+    //
+    // First we do a WebSocket handshake on a TCP stream, i.e. do the upgrade
+    // request.
+    //
+    // Half of the work we're going to do is to take all data we receive on
+    // stdin (`stdin_rx`) and send that along the WebSocket stream (`sink`).
+    // The second half is to take all the data we receive (`stream`) and then
+    // write that to stdout. Currently we just write to stdout in a synchronous
+    // fashion.
+    //
+    // Finally we set the client to terminate once either half of this work
+    // finishes. If we don't have any more data to read or we won't receive any
+    // more work from the remote then we can exit.
+    let mut stdout = io::stdout();
+    let client = tcp.and_then(|stream| {
+        let req = Request { url: url };
+        ClientHandshake::<TcpStream>::new_async(stream, req).and_then(|ws_stream| {
+            println!("WebSocket handshake has been successfully completed");
+
+            // `sink` is the stream of messages going out.
+            // `stream` is the stream of incoming messages.
+            let (sink, stream) = ws_stream.split();
+
+            // We forward all messages, composed out of the data, entered to
+            // the stdin, to the `sink`.
+            let send_stdin = stdin_rx.forward(sink);
+            let write_stdout = stream.for_each(|message| {
+                stdout.write_all(&message.into_data()).unwrap();
+                Ok(())
+            });
+
+            // Wait for either of futures to complete.
+            send_stdin.map(|_| ())
+                      .select(write_stdout.map(|_| ()))
+                      .then(|_| Ok(()))
+        }).map_err(|e| {
+            println!("Error during the websocket handshake occurred: {}", e);
+            io::Error::new(io::ErrorKind::Other, e)
+        })
+    });
+
+    // And now that we've got our client, we execute it in the event loop!
+    core.run(client).unwrap();
+}
+
+// Our helper method which will read data from stdin and send it along the
+// sender provided.
+fn read_stdin(mut tx: mpsc::Sender<Message>) {
+    let mut stdin = io::stdin();
+    loop {
+        let mut buf = vec![0; 1024];
+        let n = match stdin.read(&mut buf) {
+            Err(_) |
+            Ok(0) => break,
+            Ok(n) => n,
+        };
+        buf.truncate(n);
+        tx = tx.send(Message::binary(buf)).wait().unwrap();
+    }
+}
diff --git a/examples/server.rs b/examples/server.rs
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+//! A chat server that broadcasts a message to all connections.
+//!
+//! This is a simple line-based server which accepts WebSocket connections,
+//! reads lines from those connections, and broadcasts the lines to all other
+//! connected clients.
+//!
+//! You can test this out by running:
+//!
+//!     cargo run --example server
+//!
+//! And then in another window run:
+//!
+//!     cargo run --example client ws://127.0.0.1:12345/
+//!
+//! You can run the second command in multiple windows and then chat between the
+//! two, seeing the messages from the other client as they're received. For all
+//! connected clients they'll all join the same room and see everyone else's
+//! messages.
+
+extern crate futures;
+extern crate tokio_core;
+extern crate tokio_tungstenite;
+extern crate tungstenite;
+
+use std::cell::RefCell;
+use std::collections::HashMap;
+use std::env;
+use std::io::{Error, ErrorKind};
+use std::rc::Rc;
+
+use futures::stream::Stream;
+use futures::{Future};
+use tokio_core::net::{TcpListener, TcpStream};
+use tokio_core::reactor::Core;
+use tokio_tungstenite::ServerHandshakeExt;
+use tungstenite::handshake::server::ServerHandshake;
+use tungstenite::protocol::Message;
+
+fn main() {
+    let addr = env::args().nth(1).unwrap_or("127.0.0.1:8080".to_string());
+    let addr = addr.parse().unwrap();
+
+    // Create the event loop and TCP listener we'll accept connections on.
+    let mut core = Core::new().unwrap();
+    let handle = core.handle();
+    let socket = TcpListener::bind(&addr, &handle).unwrap();
+    println!("Listening on: {}", addr);
+
+    // This is a single-threaded server, so we can just use Rc and RefCell to
+    // store the map of all connections we know about.
+    let connections = Rc::new(RefCell::new(HashMap::new()));
+
+    let srv = socket.incoming().for_each(|(stream, addr)| {
+
+        // We have to clone both of these values, because the `and_then`
+        // function billow constructs a new future, `and_then` requires
+        // `FnOnce`, so we construct a move closure to move the
+        // environment inside the future (AndThen future may overlive our
+        // `for_each` future).
+        let connections_inner = connections.clone();
+        let handle_inner = handle.clone();
+
+        ServerHandshake::<TcpStream>::new_async(stream).and_then(move |ws_stream| {
+            println!("New WebSocket connection: {}", addr);
+
+            // Create a channel for our stream, which other sockets will use to
+            // send us messages. Then register our address with the stream to send
+            // data to us.
+            let (tx, rx) = futures::sync::mpsc::unbounded();
+            connections_inner.borrow_mut().insert(addr, tx);
+
+            // Let's split the WebSocket stream, so we can work with the
+            // reading and writing halves separately.
+            let (sink, stream) = ws_stream.split();
+
+            // Whenever we receive a message from the client, we print it and
+            // send to other clients, excluding the sender.
+            let connections = connections_inner.clone();
+            let ws_reader = stream.for_each(move |message: Message| {
+                println!("Received a message from {}: {}", addr, message);
+
+                // For each open connection except the sender, send the
+                // string via the channel.
+                let mut conns = connections.borrow_mut();
+                let iter = conns.iter_mut()
+                                .filter(|&(&k, _)| k != addr)
+                                .map(|(_, v)| v);
+                for tx in iter {
+                    tx.send(message.clone()).unwrap();
+                }
+                Ok(())
+            });
+
+            // Whenever we receive a string on the Receiver, we write it to
+            // `WriteHalf<WebSocketStream>`.
+            let ws_writer = rx.fold(sink, |mut sink, msg| {
+                use futures::Sink;
+                sink.start_send(msg).unwrap();
+                Ok(sink)
+            });
+
+            // Now that we've got futures representing each half of the socket, we
+            // use the `select` combinator to wait for either half to be done to
+            // tear down the other. Then we spawn off the result.
+            let connection = ws_reader.map(|_| ()).map_err(|_| ())
+                                      .select(ws_writer.map(|_| ()).map_err(|_| ()));
+
+            handle_inner.spawn(connection.then(move |_| {
+                connections_inner.borrow_mut().remove(&addr);
+                println!("Connection {} closed.", addr);
+                Ok(())
+            }));
+
+            Ok(())
+        }).map_err(|e| {
+            println!("Error during the websocket handshake occurred: {}", e);
+            Error::new(ErrorKind::Other, e)
+        })
+    });
+
+    // Execute server.
+    core.run(srv).unwrap();
+}