diff --git a/examples/custom-future-multiple-bodies/Cargo.toml b/examples/custom-future-multiple-bodies/Cargo.toml
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+[package]
+name = "custom-future-multiple-bodies"
+version = "0.1.0"
+authors = ["Tower Maintainers <team@tower-rs.com>"]
+edition = "2021"
+publish = false
+license = "MIT"
+
+[dependencies]
+bytes = "1.12.0"
+http = "1.4.2"
+http-body-util = "0.1.3"
+hyper = "1.10.1"
+pin-project-lite = "0.2.17"
+tokio = { version = "1.32.0", features = ["full"] }
+tower = { version = "0.5", features = ["full"] }
diff --git a/examples/custom-future-multiple-bodies/README.md b/examples/custom-future-multiple-bodies/README.md
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+# Custom future with multiple bodies
+
+This example serves to demonstrate how to build a service that returns a
+response in case of an event (in this instance, a missing HTTP header) while
+leaving the inner service's response untouched.
+
+This requires wrapping the response body if the user wishes to leave the inner
+service's body untouched.
+
+## Running the example
+
+```
+cargo run -p custom-future-multiple-bodies
+```
diff --git a/examples/custom-future-multiple-bodies/src/main.rs b/examples/custom-future-multiple-bodies/src/main.rs
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+use bytes::Bytes;
+use http::{Request, Response, StatusCode};
+use http_body_util::{Either, Full};
+use pin_project_lite::pin_project;
+use std::{
+    future::Future,
+    pin::Pin,
+    task::{ready, Context, Poll},
+};
+use tower::Service;
+
+use http_body_util::BodyExt;
+use std::error::Error;
+use tower::ServiceBuilder;
+use tower::ServiceExt;
+
+// think of Either as an enum that implements Body if both arms implement Body
+// this allows us to combine multple bodies
+type ResponseBody<B> = Either<B, Full<Bytes>>;
+
+// some helper to go along with it
+fn map_resp<B>(resp: Response<B>) -> Response<ResponseBody<B>> {
+    resp.map(|body| Either::Left(body))
+}
+
+fn new_err_resp<B>(status: StatusCode, body: &'static str) -> Response<ResponseBody<B>> {
+    Response::builder()
+        .status(status)
+        .body(Either::Right(Full::from(body)))
+        .unwrap()
+}
+
+#[derive(Clone)]
+pub struct RequireHeader<S> {
+    inner: S,
+    header_name: &'static str,
+}
+
+impl<S> RequireHeader<S> {
+    pub fn new(inner: S, header_name: &'static str) -> Self {
+        Self { inner, header_name }
+    }
+}
+
+impl<S, ReqBody, ResBody> Service<Request<ReqBody>> for RequireHeader<S>
+where
+    S: Service<Request<ReqBody>, Response = Response<ResBody>>,
+{
+    type Response = Response<ResponseBody<ResBody>>;
+    type Error = S::Error;
+    type Future = RequireHeaderFuture<S::Future>;
+
+    fn poll_ready(&mut self, cx: &mut Context<'_>) -> Poll<Result<(), Self::Error>> {
+        self.inner.poll_ready(cx)
+    }
+
+    fn call(&mut self, req: Request<ReqBody>) -> Self::Future {
+        if !req.headers().contains_key(self.header_name) {
+            return RequireHeaderFuture::HeaderNotFound;
+        }
+        RequireHeaderFuture::Ok {
+            fut: self.inner.call(req),
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+pin_project! {
+    #[project = EnumProj]
+    pub enum RequireHeaderFuture<F> {
+        Ok{ #[pin] fut: F },
+        HeaderNotFound,
+    }
+}
+
+impl<F, E, ResBody> Future for RequireHeaderFuture<F>
+where
+    F: Future<Output = Result<Response<ResBody>, E>>,
+{
+    type Output = Result<Response<ResponseBody<ResBody>>, E>;
+
+    fn poll(self: Pin<&mut Self>, cx: &mut Context<'_>) -> Poll<Self::Output> {
+        match self.project() {
+            EnumProj::Ok { fut } => {
+                let res = ready!(fut.poll(cx));
+
+                // we use our helper to unify the response body types
+                // its also possible to return a custom error response here if the inner service failed
+                Poll::Ready(res.map(|resp| map_resp(resp)))
+            }
+            EnumProj::HeaderNotFound => {
+                Poll::Ready(Ok(new_err_resp(StatusCode::BAD_REQUEST, "missing header")))
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+#[tokio::main]
+async fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn Error>> {
+    let inner_service = tower::service_fn(|_req: Request<Full<Bytes>>| async {
+        Ok::<_, std::convert::Infallible>(Response::new(Full::new(Bytes::from("Hello, World!"))))
+    });
+
+    let mut service = ServiceBuilder::new()
+        .layer_fn(|inner| RequireHeader::new(inner, "x-api-key"))
+        .service(inner_service);
+
+    let req_bad = Request::builder().body(Full::<Bytes>::default()).unwrap();
+    let res_bad = service.ready().await?.call(req_bad).await?;
+    assert_eq!(res_bad.status(), StatusCode::BAD_REQUEST);
+
+    let body = res_bad.into_body().collect().await.unwrap();
+    assert_eq!(body.to_bytes(), "missing header");
+
+    let req_good = Request::builder()
+        .header("x-api-key", "secret")
+        .body(Full::<Bytes>::default())
+        .unwrap();
+    let res_good = service.ready().await?.call(req_good).await?;
+    assert_eq!(res_good.status(), StatusCode::OK);
+
+    Ok(())
+}