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 This is a contrived example intended to illustrate a few important actix-web features.
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 *Imagine* that you have a process that involves 3 steps.  The steps here
 are dumb in that they do nothing other than call an
 httpbin endpoint that returns the json that was posted to it.  The intent here
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 a final result in a response.
 
 Actix-web features illustrated here include:
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     1. handling json input param
     2. validating user-submitted parameters using the 'validator' crate
     2. actix-web client features: