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  Wishes for Layered-IO (Use Cases)
  
  Submitted by:	Dirk-Willem van Gulik
  
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  Wishes -- use cases for layered IO
  ==================================
  
  [Feel free to add your own]
  
  Dirk's original list:
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  This file is there so that I do not have to remind myself
  about the reasons for Layered IO, apart from the obvious one.
  
  0. To get away from a 1 to 1 mapping
  
     i.e. a single URI can cause multiple backend requests, 
     in arbitrary configurations, such as in paralel, tunnel/piped, 
     or in some sort of funnel mode. Such multiple backend
     requests, with fully layered IO can be treated exactly
     like any URI request; and recursion is born :-)
  
  1. To do on the fly charset conversion
  
     Be, theoretically, be able to send out your content using
     latin1, latin2 or any other charset; generated from static
     _and_ dynamic content in other charsets (typically unicode
     encoded as UTF7 or UTF8). Such conversion is prompted by
     things like the user-agent string, a cookie, or other hints
     about the capabilities of the OS, language preferences and
     other (in)capabilities of the final receipient. 
  
  2. To be able to do fancy templates
  
     Have your application/cgi sending out an XML structure of
     field/value pair-ed contents; which is substituted into a 
     template by the web server; possibly based on information 
     accessible/known to the webserver which you do not want to 
     be known to the backend script. Ideally that template would
     be just as easy to generate by a backend as well (see 0).
  
  3. On the fly translation
  
     And other general text and output mungling, such as translating
     an english page in spanish whilst it goes through your Proxy,
     or JPEG-ing a GIF generated by mod_perl+gd.
  
  Dw.