This change makes the dependency on quoted optional
by adding a minimal urldecode function to cowboy.
A protocol option for setting the urldecoding function
has been added to the cowboy_http_protocol module.
The default value for this option is set to be
equivalent to the default settings for quoted.
{fun cowboy_http:urldecode/2, crash}
A note has been added in the README to document
how to use quoted instead of this function.
A field to store this option value has been added
to the state record in the cowboy_http_protocol
module and the http_req record in include/http.hrl
Functions that previously used quoted:from_url/1
has been updated to require an equivalent function
in addition to the previously required arguments.
This change removes a C compiler from the build
requirements of cowboy. It also removes the requirement
to cross compile the code if the target arch/OS
is different from the arch/OS used to build it.
These functions allow to set response headers and body in advance,
before calling any of the reply functions.
Also add has_resp_header/2 and has_resp_body/1 to check if the given
response headers have already been set.
This function doesn't try to add any additional header besides the
Connection: Upgrade header. It also doesn't accept a body.
It should be used for the intermediate reply to an upgrade process,
before the real reply is sent (if any, for example when using TLS).
Now Cowboy checks headers sent to the client for the 'Connection'
header value, parses it, and checks whether it contains a 'close'
or 'keep-alive' value. It makes sure to close or keep the connection
alive depending on the value found there, if any.
Also change chunked replies to not close the connection by default
unless the application requests it.
From the RFC:
The HEAD method is identical to GET except that the server MUST NOT
return a message-body in the response. The metainformation contained
in the HTTP headers in response to a HEAD request SHOULD be identical
to the information sent in response to a GET request.
Replaces the 'Connection' interpretation in cowboy_http_protocol
from raw value to the parsed value, looking for a single token
matching close/keep-alive instead of the whole raw value (which
could contain more than one token, for example with Firefox 6+
using websocket).
Introduce the functions cowboy_http_req:parse_header/2 and /3
to semantically parse the header values and return a proper
Erlang term.
It removes all the non-essential data from the HTTP request record.
It allows some applications to make better use of their memory,
for example websockets which do not need to keep all the headers
information and can simply discard it using this function.
The formatted date is generated and kept up to date regularly
by a gen_server process storing it in the cowboy_clock ets table.
Then it is retrieved by other processes simply by reading the table.
The dispatcher now accepts '...' as the leading segment of Host and the
trailing segment of Path, this special atom matches any remaining path tail.
When given "cowboy.bugs.dev-extend.eu", host rule ['...', <<"dev-extend">>,
<<"eu">>] matches and fills host_info with [<<"cowboy">>, <<"bugs">>].
When given "/a/b/c/d", path rule [<<"a">>, <<"b">>, '...'] matches and fills
path_info with [<<"c">>, <<"d">>].
