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Cowboy examples
===============
The Cowboy examples can be found in a separate repository:
* [hello_world](./hello_world):
simplest example application
* https://github.com/extend/cowboy_examples
* [echo_get](./echo_get):
parse and echo a GET query string
* [echo_post](./echo_post):
parse and echo a POST parameter
* [chunked_hello_world](./chunked_hello_world):
demonstrates chunked data transfer with two one-second delays
* [static](./static):
an example file server

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Cowboy Hello World
==================
Cowboy Chunked Hello World
==========================
To compile this example you need rebar in your PATH.
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```
Then run the given command or point your browser to the indicated URL.
Example
-------
```bash
$ time curl -i http://localhost:8080
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
transfer-encoding: chunked
connection: keep-alive
server: Cowboy
date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 04:24:16 GMT
Hello
World
Chunked!
curl -i http://localhost:8080 0.01s user 0.00s system 0% cpu 2.015 total
```

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Then point your browser to the indicated URL. You can change
the GET parameter to check that the handler is echoing properly.
Example
-------
``` bash
$ curl -i "http://localhost:8080/?echo=saymyname"
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
connection: keep-alive
server: Cowboy
date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 04:09:04 GMT
content-length: 9
Content-Encoding: utf-8
saymyname
```

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```
./curl_post.sh STRING_TO_ECHO
```
Example
-------
``` bash
$ curl -i -d echo=echomeplz http://localhost:8080
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
connection: keep-alive
server: Cowboy
date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 04:12:36 GMT
content-length: 9
Content-Encoding: utf-8
echomeplz
```

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```
Then point your browser to the indicated URL.
Example
-------
``` bash
$ curl -i http://localhost:8080
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
connection: keep-alive
server: Cowboy
date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 04:10:25 GMT
content-length: 12
Hello world!
```

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Cowboy Hello World
==================
Cowboy Rest Hello World
=======================
To compile this example you need rebar in your PATH.
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```
Then run any given command or point your browser to the indicated URL.
Examples
--------
### Get HTML
``` bash
$ curl -i http://localhost:8080
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
connection: keep-alive
server: Cowboy
date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 04:15:52 GMT
content-length: 136
Content-Type: text/html
Variances: Accept
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>REST Hello World!</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>REST Hello World as HTML!</p>
</body>
</html>
```
### Get JSON
``` bash
$ curl -i -H "Accept: application/json" http://localhost:8080
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
connection: keep-alive
server: Cowboy
date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 04:16:46 GMT
content-length: 24
Content-Type: application/json
Variances: Accept
{"rest": "Hello World!"}
```
### Get text
``` bash
$ curl -i -H "Accept: text/plain" http://localhost:8080
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
connection: keep-alive
server: Cowboy
date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 04:18:35 GMT
content-length: 25
Content-Type: text/plain
Variances: Accept
REST Hello World as text!
```
### Get a 406
``` bash
$ curl -i -H "Accept: text/css" http://localhost:8080
HTTP/1.1 406 Not Acceptable
connection: keep-alive
server: Cowboy
date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 04:18:51 GMT
content-length: 0
```

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Cowboy will serve all the files you put in the priv/ directory.
You can replace the filename given in the example URL with the
one of a file you added to this directory to receive that file.
Example
-------
Show that the file is returned as an octet-stream
``` bash
$ curl -i http://localhost:8080/test.txt
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
connection: keep-alive
server: Cowboy
date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 04:19:40 GMT
content-length: 52
Content-Type: application/octet-stream
Last-Modified: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 04:01:20 GMT
If you read this then the static file server works!
```
Finally download and cat the file to verify
``` bash
$ curl -sLO http://localhost:8080/test.txt
$ cat test.txt
If you read this then the static file server works!
```