Verb agreement error "The request process executes
middlewares which, by default, including the router
and then the execution of handlers." -> "The request
process executes middlewares. By default, the request
process executes the router and then the handlers."
Adverbial clause at beginning of sentence needs comma
"By default Cowboy comes..." -> "By default, Cowboy comes..."
When calling cowboy_req:reply/4 with a body a crash will occur
resulting in a 500 response. When calling cowboy_req:stream_reply/2,3
and then attempting to send a body a crash will occur.
This is mostly to ensure that the GOAWAY frame is properly
received on Windows in some tests, but should be benefitial
also in production in particular when clients are slower.
To avoid intermittent test failures. We only want to make
sure the function eventually returns so we don't need to
use timeouts in the test itself, or check exactly what was
read.
This resulted in a badarith error due to the current flow being
set to infinity when the body has been fully read. A test case
has been added reproducing the issue.
The flow control is now only set to infinity when we are
skipping the request body of the stream that is being
terminated. This fixes a bug where it was set to infinity
while reading a subsequent request's body, leading to a
crash.
The timeout is no longer reset on stream termination.
Timeout handling is already done when receiving data
from the socket and doing a reset on stream termination
was leading to the wrong timeout being set or the right
timeout being reset needlessly.
This reduces the number of times we need to ask for more packets,
and as a result we get a fairly large boost in performance,
especially with HTTP/1.1.
Unfortunately this makes Cowboy require at least Erlang/OTP 21.3+
because the ssl application did not have active,N. For simplicity
the version required will be Erlang/OTP 22+.
In addition this change improves hibernate handling in
cowboy_websocket. Hibernate will now work for HTTP/2 transport
as well, and stray or unrelated messages will no longer cancel
hibernate (the process will handle the message and go back into
hibernation).
Thanks go to Stressgrid for benchmarking an early version of this
commit: https://stressgrid.com/blog/cowboy_performance_part_2/
When sending a complete response it is far more efficient
to send the headers and the body in one Transport:send/2
call instead of two or more, at least for small responses.
This is the HTTP/2 counterpart to what was done for HTTP/1.1
many years ago in bfab8d4b22.
In HTTP/2's case however the implementation is a little
more difficult due to flow control. On the other hand the
optimization will apply not only for headers/body but also
for the body of multiple separate responses, which may need
to be sent all at the same time when we receive a WINDOW_UPDATE
frame.
When a body is sent using sendfile however a separate call
is still made.
