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 Introduction
 ============
 
-Purpose
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 Cowboy is a small, fast and modular HTTP server written in Erlang.
 
 Cowboy aims to provide a complete HTTP stack, including its derivatives
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 Routing
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-Purpose
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 Cowboy does nothing by default.
 
 To make Cowboy useful, you need to map URLs to Erlang modules that will